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Article #637Re: Uzbekistan: not just a country any more
From: Geoff Miller
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:59
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:59
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Steve Pope <spope33@speedymail.org> writes: : Here's an analogy: someone who hacks is a hacker. Any given example : of that thing that he does is a hack. Similarly, someone who trolls : is a troller. > Surely trolls lived under bridges for decades if not centuries before > modern usages of troll, troller, etc. Er, what's that got to do with what I said? Are you saying that if one sense of a word came before another, it should be presumed to apply in all cases where another sense isn't explicitly indicated by the context? If so, I don't follow your reasoning. And if not, then what exactly _do_ you mean? Geoff -- "While hybrid automobiles emit much less smog, the problem is that the people who drive them emit lots of smug." -- Four Way Windowpane
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X-Google-Thread: 115ce9,e1a828bd5e36f276 X-Google-Thread: fe8e7,e1a828bd5e36f276 X-Google-Attributes: gid115ce9,gidfe8e7,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!sn-xt-sjc-02!sn-xt-sjc-07!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!u1.netgate.net!not-for-mail From: geoffm@u1.netgate.net (Geoff Miller) Newsgroups: la.eats,ba.food Subject: Re: Uzbekistan: not just a country any more Followup-To: la.eats,ba.food Date: 7 Apr 2006 06:59:10 -0700 Organization: Lonesome Cantaloupe Music Message-ID: <e15r7e$hp5@u1.netgate.net> Sender: geoffm@netgate.net References: <e0un13$krr$1@news.Stanford.EDU> <050420060934319517%timcmay@removethis.got.net> <e133cf$sfd@u1.netgate.net> <e13qd7$7vu$1@blue.rahul.net> Reply-To: geoffm@netgate.net X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 28