XPost: alt.fan.tolkien, rec.arts.books.tolkien, alt.books.cs-lewis   
   From: jwkenne@attglobal.net   
      
   On 8/18/09 7:34 PM, Öjevind Lång wrote:   
   > "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.   
      
   No, again, that is not what he said.   
      
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