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More Proof Democracy Won't Work
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03/04/2006 17:36:10
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
 
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>>>The world-famous book from last year "Eats, shoots and leaves", by Lynn Truss - well she's my punctuation hero. You might know I'm a bit of a stickler for English, and, when I read her book, I wanted her to have my babies! :-)
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>>You may find my favoUrite example on my ambiguity page, at the bottom:
>
>At the botton of what? Not the "False Friends" page?

The "Ambiguity, thy name is English" -
http://ndragan.com/lange/dvosmisleno.html

"False friends" is a known phenomenon between any pair of languages, where you have the same word with different meanings.

back to same old

the first online autobiography, unfinished by design
What, me reckless? I'm full of recks!
Balkans, eh? Count them.
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