OT: what's with the 'i'?

Eddie O'Connor eoconnor25 at gmail.com
Fri Feb 1 21:41:02 UTC 2013


I do!....LoL!
On Feb 1, 2013 3:26 PM, "Joe Zeff" <joe at zeff.us> wrote:

> On 02/01/2013 11:13 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
>>
>> As the ox ploughs IIRC (or plows if you prefer). I don't know if there
>> are any examples of the Romans using that, and the Greeks only did it
>> sometimes, probably to annoy people on mailing lists :-)
>>
>
> Very good!  And yes, AFAIK the Romans didn't copy that.  Please
> understand, BTW, that I don't do things like that simply to see if anybody
> understands it.  I do it because I assume that a fair number of you will
> recognize what I'm saying and won't have to ask.
>
> Wandering even farther off-topic for a moment, I often have a problem when
> talking to younger people: I like to make pop culture references, and tend
> to forget that what I'm referring to was way before anybody else in the
> conversation was born.  As an example, does anybody reading this know what
> I mean by "an identical cousin?"
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