1. language, was Re: Tutorials
On 22 Sep 2004, at 23:15, Derek Parnell wrote:
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> That's good. You should have a go at its forebear SGML. Now that's a
"forebear"? Forebearer? Isn't "forebear" the activity of "before bearing", and
"forebearer" the one who did the activity? It smells like "manufacturer", which
people have a phobia of saying here. But at least you didn't set my teeth on
edge with "forbear". Lets discuss "acrost"! Isn't "acrost" the state of being
"past crossing", while "across" means "it's over there, but didn't get there by
crossing"? This "acrost" smells like "bent", the past state of having been
bended. The "t" ending explains why there is no non-past tense of "write"
(itself ending in "t"(e)), because anything so done had to endure the action,
and there is no pre-existing written word that wasn't wrote-d. Right?
Kat
