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   Paul Quinn to Ardith Hinton   
   taxiing?   
   05 Dec 16 20:22:32   
   
   Hi! Ardith,   
      
   On 04 Dec 16 23:36, you wrote to me:   
      
    PQ>>  \vice-verse.   
      
    AH>       |vice versa... from Latin.  I wasn't a brilliant student   
    AH>       in the subject.  I understand what people mean when they   
    AH>       say "it killed the mighty Romans & now it's killing me",   
    AH>       but I also find it helpful now & then....  :-)   
      
   Like the other languages I had an opportunity to study in 'junior high', Latin   
   for me was another failure.  OTOH, the short time devoted to its study has   
   helped immensely throughout the half-century since.  Now, when faced with a   
   spell-checker at my advanced stage of life that lists a number of alternative   
   variations for what it considered to be an error (in that I wanted to use the   
   *same* string as you've corrected me with), what am I to do?  Oops.  ;-)   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
   ... Funditus tortus sum!  Fucatissimum!   
   --- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox   
    * Origin: Quinn's Post - Maryborough, Queensland, OZ (3:640/384)   

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