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- From: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk (Mary Branscombe)
- Subject: Re: Oi!
- Reply-To: maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:33:00 +0000
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- In-Reply-To: <1jq0drINNep2@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> siewert@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Karl Siewert)
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- Maraud wants to know what a disquisition is..
- Merrytail the word maiden appears, clutching dictionary in tail...
- "A disquisition is a formal written or oral examination of a
- subject... like an inquisition, but you go right the way through what
- you're investigating (from the latin dis, from the greek dia) so it's
- from dis-quaerare - to seek your way right through something.
- If you wish to promulgate the results of such a disquisition, that
- might well be a dissertation.
- Any more words?"
- MerryTail grins hopefully
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- | Organisation: Me? You're joking, right? |maryb@cix.compulink.co.uk |
- | | |
- |I know I type "teh" for "the" My fingers have their own accent ;-) |
- | OK, I just can't type ;-)) |
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