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- Subject: Re: A tricky way to determine Lua version
- From: Frank Kastenholz <fkastenholz@...>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 19:35:13 -0400
Lerner and Loewe / enry iggins
> On Jun 30, 2018, at 5:41 PM, Lorenzo Donati <lorenzodonatibz@tiscali.it> wrote:
>
>> On 30/06/2018 10:57, Dirk Laurie wrote:
>> 2018-06-30 9:38 GMT+02:00 Viacheslav Usov <via.usov@gmail.com>:
>>>> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 9:42 PM Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In English, it means "affording grounds for legal action".
>>>
>>> Then, I am afraid, you will have to insist that all the major dictionaries
>>> of the English language are wrong when listing the equivalent of "able to be
>>> done or acted on; having practical value" as one of its meanings.
>>
>> "Her English is too good", he said, "which clearly indicates
>> that she is foreign.
>> Where others are taught to speak English properly,
>> Enlish people aren'.
>> Although she may have studied with an expert
>> dialectician and grammarian,
>> I can tell at once that she was born
>> HUNGARIAN!"
>>
>>
> mmmh.. Conan Doyle or Oscar Wilde? Citation needed! :-)
>