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Wilson Gray
hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sun Aug 9 21:37:58 UTC 2015
On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> To "radiator-brush propagate" would be ambiguous.
>
Well, of course. The original is ambiguous, because "with" - "in the
company of" and "by means of" - is ambiguous.
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-Wilson
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