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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 02:37:33 +0200
From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:28:31 -0400
Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Is this a problem with the English language? I thought I knew it
> > inside- out, upside-down and back-to-front. I still think so. Yet
> > your account has you tying yourself in knots over a known fault.  
> 
> Too many uses of the insufficiently-explicit "the board"...but (in
> English) such ambiguities are usually resolved by surrounding context.

<evil thought>
hey, here's an idea, let's fix that by using Hungarian decorators on all
English nouns!

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com