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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread anything you can do, we can do better #55730 02/08/2002 5:52 AM Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta Bingley Carpal Tunnel Bingley Carpal Tunnel Joined: Apr 2000 Posts: 3,065 Jakarta http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=975770 Bingley Bingley Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: Author! Author!! #55731 02/08/2002 12:30 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 Keiva Carpal Tunnel Keiva Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 Loved the last sentence, Bingle! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: anything you can do, we can do better #55732 02/08/2002 1:10 PM Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 maverick Carpal Tunnel maverick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Sep 2000 Posts: 4,757 I thought the last sentence was just a cheap shot from a hack journalist, but the contents are very interesting, Bingley. We are sure to see this tool being refined for use in corpus linguistics studies over the next few years. and hey, we could even use it around here to compare Dickens' Great Ekspectorations with, say legal quibbling found in other minor works... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: anything you can do, we can do better #55733 02/08/2002 8:01 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 Keiva Carpal Tunnel Keiva Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 >> Great EKspectorations ... legal quibbling Let's not get personal here, mav. Note the titular line. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: anything you can do, we can do better #55734 02/08/2002 8:34 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Spector was a record producer ... The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: anything you can do, we can do better #55735 02/08/2002 8:38 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Spector was a record producer ... ... and a philatelist, too, as I recall? Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: anything you can do, we can do better #55736 02/08/2002 11:52 PM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England ... and a philatelist, too, as I recall? Sorry, don't know anything about his medical problems ... The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: anything you can do, we can do better #55737 02/09/2002 1:19 AM Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 wwh Carpal Tunnel wwh Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jan 2001 Posts: 13,858 Spunds as though battle lines are being drawn. Names being mocked. Bad form. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: anything you can do, we can do better #55738 02/09/2002 6:05 AM Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Capital Kiwi Carpal Tunnel Joined: Nov 2000 Posts: 3,146 Northamptonshire, England We're talking about a different Spector, Bill. One Phil, as it happens. Do try to keep up! The idiot also known as Capfka ... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: anything you can do, we can do better #55739 02/09/2002 12:59 PM Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 Keiva Carpal Tunnel Keiva Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 2,605 Indeed, you were, Kiwi. You were talking about P.Spector, not K.Spector. But dr. bill is quite right: others specified K.Spector. Count 6 and 7 posts above. Keiva [real-life name Kenneth Spector; real-life profession attorney] Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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