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Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Mon Oct 20 23:31:16 UTC 2014


At 10/20/2014 05:42 PM, Bonnie Taylor-Blake wrote:

>On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 4:56 PM, ADSGarson O'Toole
><adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The remarkable arachnid was discovered when the intrepid etymologist
> > noticed faintly visible words spelled out in the tenuous filaments of
> > an enormous delicate web. "My linguistic training was vital. It
> > allowed me to recognize this anomalous verbal pattern," said the
> > swashbuckling academic adventurer. Scientists are now working
> > intensely attempting to decipher the spidery language.
>
>Didn't I see this already in "Indo-European Jones and the Web of Language"?
>
>-- Bonnie

"Some pig".  And that's not all she wrote.

Joel 

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