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Ron Bauerle

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Aug 25, 2008, 12:34:07 PM8/25/08

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Um, why would it? "Umlaut" doesn't contain any umlauted (?) letters,
and when writing them in English, you add "e", not "u"...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umlaut_(diacritic)#Printing_conventions_in_German

Ron

J.D. Baldwin

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Aug 25, 2008, 12:59:57 PM8/25/08

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In the previous article, Ron Bauerle <ron.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://images.chron.com/apps/comics/images/2008/8/25/Non_Sequitur_pan.473.g.gif
>
> Um, why would it? "Umlaut" doesn't contain any umlauted (?) letters,
> and when writing them in English, you add "e", not "u"...

"Monosyllabic" isn't?

"Heterography" isn't one.

Why is it okay to use the word "vulgar" in polite conversation?

And so on.
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Evan Kirshenbaum

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Aug 25, 2008, 1:44:18 PM8/25/08

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INVALID...@example.com.invalid (J.D. Baldwin) writes:

> In the previous article, Ron Bauerle <ron.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://images.chron.com/apps/comics/images/2008/8/25/Non_Sequitur_pan.473.g.gif
>>
>> Um, why would it? "Umlaut" doesn't contain any umlauted (?)
>> letters, and when writing them in English, you add "e", not "u"...
>
> "Monosyllabic" isn't?
>
> "Heterography" isn't one.

Just don't think too long about "heterological".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grelling%E2%80%93Nelson_paradox

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sw...@insightbb.com

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Aug 25, 2008, 3:29:28 PM8/25/08

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And why doesn't onomatopoeia sound like what it means?

Mike Marshall

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Aug 25, 2008, 3:37:48 PM8/25/08

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>And why doesn't onomatopoeia sound like what it means?

Poink! really does it for me.

BREEN! is harder to use, but nothings says "clanged in the head with a
frying pan" better than BREEN!

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Antonio E. Gonzalez

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Aug 25, 2008, 6:57:48 PM8/25/08

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On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:59:57 +0000 (UTC),
INVALID...@example.com.invalid (J.D. Baldwin) wrote:

>
>In the previous article, Ron Bauerle <ron.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://images.chron.com/apps/comics/images/2008/8/25/Non_Sequitur_pan.473.g.gif
>>
>> Um, why would it? "Umlaut" doesn't contain any umlauted (?) letters,
>> and when writing them in English, you add "e", not "u"...
>
>"Monosyllabic" isn't?
>
>"Heterography" isn't one.
>
>Why is it okay to use the word "vulgar" in polite conversation?
>
>And so on.

. . . and how *do* you know you've run out of invisible ink?

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Joy Beeson

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Aug 25, 2008, 7:19:25 PM8/25/08

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On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:29:28 -0700 (PDT), sw...@insightbb.com wrote:

> And why doesn't onomatopoeia sound like what it means?

Because I can't pronounce it.

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George Peatty

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Aug 25, 2008, 8:13:58 PM8/25/08

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On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:19:25 -0400, Joy Beeson <jbe...@invalid.net.invalid>
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>Because I can't pronounce it.

On-oh-motto-PEA-uh ..