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|    Michael R N Dolbear to Brenda Clough    |
|    Re: Cantata in Coral and Ivory    |
|    07 Dec 14 16:00:48    |
      From: me@privacy.net              "Brenda Clough" wrote              > I worked once at a place where my boss told me, "Use shorter words." I       > said, "I can't. Live with it."                     The other Italian Anna - professional translator who lived in Dublin, told       the story here of how she gained a reputation for great erudition in       Ireland.              Every time she ran out of vocabulary she used her best guess by taking an       Italian word and Englishing it which usually gave a real but Latinate and       quite often rare word.                     -- --       Mike D              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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