Re: big sale at Oxford UP

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From: phoglund
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 04:10

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On Dec 7, 2:37 am, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote:
> On Dec 6, 7:01 pm, phogl...@abo.fi wrote:
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> > 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:
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> > > > 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
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> > > Shameless plug.
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> > > 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"?

It is a box outside the main body of a book's text, spelling out
things in a way intelligible to a layman. The word might be the kind
of pseudo-English used in such languages as German or Swedish, but not
necessarily a legitimate English term.

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Subject: Re: big sale at Oxford UP
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