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|    Debra Dee McQueen Freeman to wordy...@gmail.com    |
|    Re: Nukes and such    |
|    18 Aug 17 23:09:26    |
      From: dfreemans@live.com              On Friday, August 18, 2017 at 8:15:04 AM UTC-4, wordy...@gmail.com wrote:              > ALL THOU CANCEROUS.       > OH, US? ALL-OUT CANCER!       >       > ALAS ON CRUEL TOUCH? [Hitting the RED BUTTON!]       > NEO CULTURAL CHAOS.       >       > These are depressingly apt.              Ha!              > was the US in the second one us or U.S.? :-|       >       > I might suggest a re-ordering of the words in the first one to THOU, ALL       CANCEROUS.       > THOU is a second person singular meaning YOU (i.e. it means 'you' but only       when it is referring to one specific person rather than say addressing a       group). What I am getting at is ALL THOU doesn't make logical sense whereas       ALL CANCEROUS does.       >       > anyway. On that happy thought - have a nice day :-)              Ha!              > Chris              Yes, I thought it most interesting too       that cancer and cancerous were available.              No, I recognized that U S could be presented       as U.S. in a number of available transpositions       but did not want to even think same!              YOU can address an individual or a group,       and since THOU means YOU, I put it       ALL THOU CANCEROUS meaning       ALL YOU CANCEROUS, no less than saying       ALL YOU MAIDENS or       ALL YOU SMART ONES or       ALL YOU (WHATEVER GROUP), in this instance       the group being the result of the nuclear bomb.              Thanks for the reply.              Cheers.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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