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"Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:51:57 +0100, Ekkehard Dengler
> <ED-RS@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> <news:elso2t$jg3$01$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> in sci.lang:
>
> > "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:1166134758.774914.200880@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> >> Ruud Harmsen wrote:
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> >>> 14 Dec 2006 06:43:50 -0800: "Peter T. Daniels"
> >>> <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxx>: in sci.lang:
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> >>> >When we were doing WWS, /
>
> >>> What is WWS?
> >>> World Wide Security?
> >>> World Wide Sires?
> >>> Woodrow Wilson School?
>
> >> You're a total ass.
>
> > Failing to decipher your idiosyncratic shorthand doesn't
> > make anyone an ass. You owe Ruud an apology.
>
> Ruud's been around here long enough to know that WWS is _The
> World's Writing Systems_, Peter T. Daniels & William Bright,
> eds., OUP, 1996. I get a bit tired of the Ruud & Peter
> Show, but the provocations are by no means one-sided.
I know of the book, but didn't know what Peter meant until I tried Ruud's
link.
Regards,
Ekkehard
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