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Re: Correlation Lengths of Language Changes

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From: Mark Rosenfelder
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:00
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In article <16B5E13097.JAREA@UKCC.UKY.EDU> JAREA@UKCC.UKY.EDU writes:
>I am especially sorry that he found it necessary to resort to the device of
>ad hominem slurs and insults, which in the direct form he has used I had
>always regretted on a newslist part of whose label is "sci."

Simply put, I took your original posting to be sarcastic, and responded in
the same way you had once responded to me (in the selfsame sci.lang).

Smile when you use that there third person, pardner.

>I can, of course, provide a few controversial
>notions of my own, especially in things Latinic and Romance to unconstipate
>the too conservative when the mood is on me.  

Would you care to provide an example?  (Metacommunication: no irony here,
only honest curiosity.)
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