Re: big sale at Oxford UP

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From: Peter T. Daniels
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:37

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On Dec 6, 7:01 pm, phogl...@abo.fi wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2:17 pm, N...@remailer.metacolo.com,
> R...@remailer.metacolo.com, Hubb...@remailer.metacolo.com wrote:
> > "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > > Oxford University Press and amazon are selling 33 language &
> > > linguistics titles for very cheap, including The World's Writing
> > > Systems for $46.48. Someone sent me this tiny url, but if it doesn't
> > > work after being copy-pasted, you'd need to hunt around in amazon for
> > > "Oxford store sale."
>
> > >http://tinyurl.com/2ccqlc
>
> > Shameless plug.
>
> > Buy this book and pay royalties to one of the biggest, foulest mouths
> > on usenet?
>
> > I don't think so.
>
> As it is impossible to have a nice, polite question answered by Peter,
> I think that I will seriously consider buying the book. Then, when he
> roars at me "Check out the infobox on Page 36" or something like that,
> I'll be actually able to check out that infobox, or whatever it is.-

What's an "infobox"?

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From: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@verizon.net>
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Subject: Re: big sale at Oxford UP
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 16:37:38 -0800 (PST)
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