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 Message 4155 
 Anton Shepelev to Gleb Hlebov 
 Re: Ru 
 31 Aug 24 20:58:54 
 
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Gleb Hlebov to Anton Shepelev:

AS>> That said, `coward' is no more an ajective than `widow'
AS>> in the famous tautology `widow woman'.

GH> I've been wondering why do you always put a grave accent
GH> sign in place of the apostrophy (which is in turn
GH> supposed to signify a single quotation mark) -- any
GH> technical reasons to that?


Yes, it is the standard ASCII emulation of the opening
single qutation mark.

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