Hi, Bill.

BG> FM> Bill! I *like* my nice little ginger pussy...

BG> BG> As you're a married man, I'm not touching that line with a barge pole!

BG> FM> You don't *have* a barge pole!

BG> Funnily enough, until I sold my boat, I used to.  Not now though, hence my
BG> use of the non-specific "a" instead of the possessive
"my".  Capice?

Wakarimasu.

BG> FM> Or are you boasting again?

BG> Why would I want to do that?  I have no need.  |-)

You're boasting again! :-)

BG> BTW, I'd be interested in your opinion of the current debacle re my use of
BG> the word "prosaic" in THAT message which Rod has chosen to
attack.  Be nice
BG> though, lest you accidentally offend David Scott, our new resident FRZ.

Already did. I didn't collect mail from Monday to Saturday so quite a
backlog. Killed much of it today, including a reply to that one *before*
I'd seen the comments from many others.

Actually *I'm* interested to know whether the Macquarie actually spells
it out as 1. & 2. as you quoted. The COD, while using almost exactly the
same words, combines it in one meaning which was also my "understanding"
of the meaning of the word before this got started - ie, writing in a
straightforward, matter-of-fact way in the style of prose, rather than
with the expression and possible deeper meaning in the style of poetry.

Who is David Scott, and what's an FRZ?

Regards, FIM.

 * * Programmers do it in loops.
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