one word per line in quotes (was Re: "to boldly go")

[Mark Mandel]

Bloody damn. Ron's quote is coming up one word per line. I have just
experienced this problem on a list I use Yahoo mail on from my laptop. I am
using Firefox; Ron, are you? And let's see if the quote from Jeff (which I
am snipping short) comes up one-line here, via Firefox and gmail on my
office desktop machine.

On Jan 30, 2008 1:48 PM, Jeff Prucher <jprucher at yahoo.com> wrote:

> In an SF context, I would expect "one" to be able to refer to sentient
> nonhuman aliens. I wouldn't expect Kirk to [snip]
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "RonButters at AOL.COM" <RonButters at AOL.COM>
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 9:19:33 AM
> Subject: Re:       Re: [ADS-L] "to boldly go"
>
> Interesting
> question.
> If
> I
> said
> "No
> one
> has
> ever
> been
> in
> that
> dog
> house"
> could
> you
> properly
> say,
> "Wrong!
> MY
> dog
> has
> been
> in
> that
> dog
> house"?
> I
> don't
> think
> so.
> In
> other
> words,
> Klingons,
> being
> nonhuman,
> do
> not
> qualify
> as
> "one"
> any
> more
> than
> any
> other
> nonhuman
> (including
> your
> brilliant
> dog
> or
> even
> Noam
> Chimsky).
> Of
> course,
> since
> the
> world
> of
> science
> fiction
> is
> purely
> imaginary,
> one
> can
> imagine
> an
> alternative
> universe
> in
> which
> "one"
> refers
> either
> any
> humanoid
> being.
> Obviously,
> though,
> when
> the
> voice-over
> says,
> "...
> where
> no
> none
> has
> been
> before"
> the
> speaker
> does
> not
> mean
> to
> include
> nonhumans
> of
> any
> sort,
> since
> it
> is
> a
> given
> that
> there
> are
> other
> human-like
> creatures
> out
> there.
>
> On
>
> the
> other
> hand,
> I
> guess
> I
> might
> not
> find
> very
> odd
> this
> sentence:
> "No
> one
> seriously
> challenged
> the
> human
> race
> except
> the
> Neanderthal."
>
> In
> a
> message
> dated
> 1/30/08
> 11:22:36
> AM,
> laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
> writes:
>
>
> >
> Maybe
> so,
> but
> I'd
> think
> with
> a
> loss
> of
> accuracy,
> since
> if
> for
> example
> >
> a
> Klingon
> had
> ventured
> into
> some
> distant
> corner
> of
> the
> universe
> to
> >
> plunder,
> pillage,
> or
> whatever,
> that
> would
> satisfy
> the
> "no
> man/person
> >
> has
> gone
> before"
> clause
> but
> not
> the
> "no
> one
> has
> gone
> before"
> version.
> >
> The
> "no
> one"
> is
> a
> stronger
> claim
> than
> the
> original,
> as
> well
> as
> a
> more
> >
> sex-neutrally
> expressed
> one.
> >
> >
> LH
> >
>
>
>
>
> **************
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> the
> year
> off
> right.
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> to
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> in
> shape.
>
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Mark Mandel

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