7 Jan
2001
7 Jan
'01
2:59 a.m.
At 01:00 PM 1/5/01 -0500, Ken Brown wrote:
a good example of the US habit of never using a short word when a long one will do. But when I found myself amongst Americans I was slightly disappointed to find that they almost all say "tap" these days. Just as they say "car" instead of "automobile". You are obviously all watching too much British TV, or listening to too many British rock bands. You should defend your language against this tide of old-world vulgarity.
Nah, we're simply Huffman-encoding. A language has to be efficient in this meme market :-)