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Bill G:
No problem. It spent four hours in classes on Swedish and one tends to loss your sense of humor trying to figure out why each verb has five different forms or nouns can have four different ways to make a plural.

And I thought English, my native language, was difficult.

No offense taken

Ivo:

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Sure you weren't slipping in a few "facts" to detect plaigarism ?  :lol:

My favourites from Chambers dictionary (1998 edition) are:

eclair:-  a cake “long in shape, but short in duration”,
middle aged:- a period “between youth and old age, variously reckoned to suit the reckoner”
paneity:- “the state of being bread”, and
taghairm:- “(in the Scottish highlands) divination; especially inspiration sought by lying in a bullock’s hide behind a waterfall”

(shamelessly plaigarised from the net !)

Taylog1
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It's been a long day, I suggest you take a hot bath and a cup of tea, it will do you good.

Sklounion:
Taylog1,

With respect, I think Ivo and Bill have been very tolerant and restrained in their responses. There will always be differences of dates etc, because information that was available at day 1 gets superceded by that which comes from another publication, weeks, sometimes days later.
I recently id'ed glass for a certain publication, which, with the arrival of a single copy of a trade journal, a day later, identified several pieces attributed to other designers, and have been "gospel" for 10-15 years in the west, had to be changed. I had said to the publishers the day before, "thats ok, go with it".

This may have been a humorous post, but it sailed damned close to the wind. A litigious person would have had your guts for garters.

Max:
Please forgive me, I know I'm new, and shouldn't really be sticking my nose in!

I think Taylog was playfully referring to 'detecting plagiarism', rather than being disrespectful to two earnest members.

In my mind, Taylog reminded me of cartographers.  They sometimes add false town names or tributarys to their maps in order to detect other folk using their highly paid for expertise in their own maps for nothing.

I have a feeling that there was a high profile case in the last couple of years in which a company successfully sued over plagiarism of maps (was it the AA?), due to copying a false river tributary which was deliberately added for this very reason.

Sorry, I know I'm new....but I can't help myself adding my bit.   Hope you don't mind.

Max xx

Ivo:
Thanks, Max. I have no problem admitting there are a few control facts in the A-Z book, but Paul Kedelv it ain't.  And I'm not going to tell you which ones they are... that would defeat the purpose. 8)

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