<digitally>?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Aug 11 22:18:37 UTC 2004


At 5:32 PM -0400 8/11/04, Douglas Bigham wrote:
>Wait.  Is that supposed to mean *digitally* as in *virtually* or *digitally*
>as in *manually*?
>
>Either one would be kinda cool (the word usage, not the action).
>
>-doug

I took it that the intention was the latter, but Beverly understood
it (as I did on first reading) as the former--but the actual
reference was not to digital as opposed to analog but to digital as
opposed to, well, ...

>
>In a message dated 8/11/2004 3:19:06 PM Central Standard Time, dumasb at UTK.EDU
>writes:
>I did a large double-take when I read the ff. sentence in our local newspaper
>(Knoxville [TN] News-
>Sentinel today:
>
>"Authorities allege he digitally raped the girl in June, 1999."
>
>She was barely old enough to be able to find a keyboard!
>
>
>Bethany
>
>-dsb
>Douglas S. Bigham
>Department of Linguistics
>University of Texas - Austin
>http://hometown.aol.com/capn002/myhomepage/index.html



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