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Am Thu, 6 Dec 2007 20:10:09 -0800 (PST) schrieb phoglund@abo.fi:

> On Dec 7, 2:37 am, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@verizon.net> wrote:
>> 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"?
> 
> 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.

I _hate_ infoboxes. They are a common nuisance in magazines;
fortunately less common in books.

Joachim