Ardith Hinton wrote to Herman Neut:   
      
    AH> Hi & welcome, Herman!  Awhile ago you quoted in a message to Roy   
    AH> Witt:   
      
    RW>>   Russian cosmonaunt: They're just looking for the last   
    RW>>   drop in their Vodka bottle.   
      
    ak>>>  What a love for astronomy!" Russian cosmonaunt: "They   
    ak>>>  just drink straight from the bottles."   
      
      
    AH>            Hmm.  I wonder who else can find the spelling error which   
    AH> Roy copied from Alexander's joke... probably without retyping... and   
    AH> which I didn't notice until just now?  Your juxtaposition of these   
    AH> quotes was what brought the matter to my attention, shortly after my   
    AH> discussion with Dallas re various terminology used by sailors.   
    AH> Another way of saying the last five words in my last sentence might   
    AH> be [xxx].  If you don't get the drift, do you know of Jason and the   
    AH> [yyy] in Greek mythology?  IMHO English is less complicated when one   
    AH> understands what we've borrowed from whom, and this word is (bad pun)   
    AH> a classic example....  ;-)   
      
   A perfect example of assuming that the msger knows how to translate and   
   spell a native term.   
      
   I should have used the English term of 'astronaut' instead.   
      
      
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