Captured Same

Arnold Zwicky zwicky at STANFORD.EDU
Tue May 18 04:19:50 UTC 2010


just this morning, i was writing about files on passwords and found myself saying:

  the "secret question(s)" and the answers to same

thus avoiding the issue of "it"or "them" as the pronoun referring to "secret question(s)".  i decided to keep "same".

arnold

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