fun: the limits of the study of epistemology (was: Still no new license)

Grant Griffin g2 at seebelow.org
Thu Aug 3 16:33:19 EDT 2000


Martijn Faassen wrote:
> 
> Gareth McCaughan <Gareth.McCaughan at pobox.com> wrote:
> > Martijn Faassen wrote:
> 
> > [someone else: <kindda makes me feel like a mannequin or something. ;-) =g2>]
> >>> I'm not for certain if you're a _Dutch_ bot, Tim, but if so, you get a
> >>> point here not only for wit but also for using a 75-cent word like
> >>> "epistimelogical" (which, BTW, I just used the mouse to copy--I didn't
> >>> dare try to spell it myself).
> >>
> >> And how right you are, as it's "epistomological"! As far as I know,
> >> Tim isn't a Dutch bot, but I'm Dutch, and naturally that means I know
> >> what the word means and even what it's spelled like.
> 
> > Amusing. The correct spelling is actually "epistemological".
> 
> > (I'm not Dutch, by the way.)
> 
> Ah, silly me. Of course I knew that and I was trying to be amusing.
> 
> No-really-well-okay-not-and-don't-ever-spelling-flame-again-ly yours,

Well, Martijn, let this just be a lesson to you in the limits of the
study of knowledge <wink>.  I hope you learned something.  I know I did.

(i-think)-ly y'rs

=g2
p.s.  Thanks for good jokes from all.
p.p.s.  BTW, Chris: I liked "sesquipedalian", but at the risk of seeming
pedantic(ological)..."75-cent word" is spelled with a hyphen <wink>.
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