Re: I'm back (OurTongue)

It's just that philosophical IALers hate accidental puns.  Dang it, if you
didn't mean it to sound funny, it shouldn't sound funny.  ^_^  (it occurred
to me as I delved into my Christmas present, "More Anguished English," that
a good chunk of IALing seems to be devoted to eliminating opportunities for
the mistakes illustrated in that sort of book)

Sarah Marie Parker-Allen
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"Being captured by the Evil Overlord is one way to learn his secret plans,
but are innumerable other ways that are better, and they will be tried
first." -- Rules for the Hero

> -----Original Message-----
> Behalf Of Christophe Grandsire
> Actually, you're thinking the wrong way round: *because* the
> meanings are so
> disparate, there's no problem having the words nearly identical.
> Context will
> always make it clear what is meant. It's words with near
> identical meanings
> that need to be different enough from each other in order not to
> merge, because
> in that case context may not be enough to distinguish the two
> words. It's the
> eternal mistake made by philosophical IALers...
>
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