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   Re: Isaac Asimov   
   19 Aug 09 01:34:03   
   
   XPost: alt.fan.tolkien, rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: bredband.net@ojevind.lang   
      
   "John W Kennedy"  skrev i meddelandet   
   news:4a8afac5$0$10328$607ed4bc@cv.net...   
   > On 8/17/09 10:29 AM, Öjevind Lång wrote:   
      
   [snip]   
      
   >> The one I really thought took the cake was Han Solo bragging about how   
   >> fast his ship was, how it traversed a certain distance at a pace of heap   
   >> many parsecs. [SCREEEAM]   
   >   
   > Strictly speaking, his statement (at least in the original English) does   
   > not specify speed -- only that he achieved a specific voyage within a   
   > certain number of parsecs.   
      
   You know better than that. He was bragging about how fast his ship was and   
   then asked Luke to guss how many parsecs it took him to travel a certain   
   distance.   
      
   Öjevind   
      
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