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- From: TSOS@uni-duesseldorf.de (Detlef Lannert)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: quite unique
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 09:40:15 GMT
- Organization: Universitaetsrechenzentrum, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet, Duesseldorf
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- Message-ID: <TSOS.180.722166015@uni-duesseldorf.de>
- References: <1992Nov16.112957.23053@black.ox.ac.uk> <BxtI97.n4I@dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1992Nov16.192525.27740@bcrka451.bnr.ca> <1e9610INNca6@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- In article <1e9610INNca6@agate.berkeley.edu> dgreen@thor (David Greenebaum) writes:
-
- >I have read all I want to read on the question of the modifiability
- >or lack thereof of the word "unique". PLEASE can't we talk about
- >something else?
-
- I must say that I enjoy this thread wholeheartedly. My only problem is
- that it takes too much time reading; but I simply cannot skip any
- part of it.
-
- I *do* hope that next spring, when the "unique" discussion has calmed
- down (*) and is almost forgotten, some innocent person new to this group
- will come up and ask the magic question again. (I even consider to hire
- someone to do this ...)
-
- --
- (*) "hopefully"
- --
- Detlef Lannert DC3EK E-Mail: tsos@rz.uni-duesseldorf.de
- "Gedanken sind nicht stets parat,
- man schreibt auch, wenn man keine hat." Wilhelm Busch
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