ink-pen

[Page Stephens]

Does anyone except myself remember the records by The Two Black Crows (Moran
and Mack) who had a farm in Africka.

One of them had a pig whom he called Ink because he was always running out
of the pen.

Page Stephens

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wilson Gray" <wilson.gray at RCN.COM>
To: <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: ink-pen


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> Poster:       Wilson Gray <wilson.gray at RCN.COM>
> Subject:      Re: ink-pen
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> On Nov 13, 2004, at 4:11 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:
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>> Poster:       "Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at UMR.EDU>
>> Subject:      Re: ink-pen
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>> My thanks to Michael McKernan for his reply below, which I now share
>> with
>> ads-l. His point is well made, and yet if someone says he's writing
>> with an ink-pen, "ink" here is not really needed for clarification.
>>
>> Gerald Cohen
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> "Ink" would be needed for clarification, if someone had asked the
> writer whether he was using an ink-pen or a ballpoint-pen.
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> -Wilson Gray
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>>> From:         Michael McKernan
>>> Sent:         Saturday, November 13, 2004 2:58 PM
>>> To:   Cohen, Gerald Leonard
>>> Subject:      Re: Redundancy--(in defense of "South Yugoslavia")
>>>
>>> Gerald Cohen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Another of his favorite redundancies was "an ink pen."
>>>
>>> Well, in a rural area, someone might occasionally feel a need to
>>> distinguish this item from a 'hog pen' or a 'sheep pen', etc., and
>>> urbanites might even know of that very human form of pen, the still
>>> common 'play pen'.
>>>
>>> Michael McKernan, Ph.D.
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