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Monday: May 28, 2012

Maybe I’ve Been Reading LanguageHat Too Long . . .

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. . . since I misread Tim Blair’s post about a Prince concert in Sydney as saying that it took place at “Allophones Arena”. I suppose Allphones is an Australian telephone company. (Don’t tell me: if I cared I could find out easily enough. In less time than it took to write this parenthesis, actually.)

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  1. As a computer geek I’ve more than once had a conversation wherein someone said something like “properties” and I thought they were talking about file attributes rather than, you know, things you buy and sell.

    Comment by Dean Esmay — Tuesday: May 29, 2012 @ 1:12 PM GMT-0500

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