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In article <MARKD.92Jul16095432@stallman.csl.sj.nec.com> markd@csl.sj.nec.com (Mark Dyer) writes:

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 >In article <SANTOS.92Jul16131924@melon.mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp> santos@mickey.ai.kyutech.ac.jp (Rafael &) writes:
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 >   Mark>Mark Dyer		English: markd@tdd.sj.nec.com
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 >   Mark>When I lived in Japan, my friends called me $@5H30?M(J.($@$-$A$,$$$8$s(J)
 >   Mark>I'm still not sure if it was a complement or not.
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 >   Uh, Mark, the word is "compliment" or "complement" ? 
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 >My spelling skills are terrible, so when someone asks me something like
 >this I immediately assume that I goofed, but I looked the word up in a
 >dictionary (the American Heritage Dictionary) and, much to my amazement,
 >"complement" is the correct spelling. At least on this side of the
 >Atlantic. :-)
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I don't want to jump on anyone' spelling skills (mine is very  bad, actually), but
according to my Longman English Dictionary both of words exist.

Complement = sthg that fills up or completes; the quantity required to make sthg
             complete
Compliment = an expression of esteem, affection, or admiration.

In the context above, i think the second one is more appropriated.

Regards

D. Cavendish
Kyushu Institute of Technology
E-mail: dirceu@taurus.cse.kyutech.ac.jp