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#87931 12/17/02 01:54 PM
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Y'all'll've seen this one before.


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Y'all'll've seen this one before.

L'L'O'L'!!


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>Two apostrophes sounds like not much of a challenge.

Let's go for three!!!



Amateurs! Samoan has the apostrophe as an integral part of its alphabet, three in a word would be a very mediocre effort by Samoan standards. Thank you. fa'afetai


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Yeah! Let's compare apples and hand grenades!


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Yeah! Let's compare apples and hand grenades!


OK.


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Pomegranates would be easier to compare to hand grenades. Why don't we begin with pomegrantes and maybe work up to apples--or down to, as the case may be.


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OK, so if Samoan is handgrenades, what language shall we use to be the pomegranates?


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>OK, so if Samoan is handgrenades, what language shall we use to be the pomegranates?

For alliterative reasons, I like anything palagi, but English oder Deutsch would seem especially apt, being the languages of all powres to have exercised colonial overlordship in Samoa. Tofa.


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English oder Deutsch

No, no, no! English is the apples and Deutsch doesn't use apostrophes at all that I can remember. No, it's gotta be something totally else.


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> No, it's gotta be something totally else.

Nihon? They do quite a bit of business in that part of the world these days.


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