Having re-read my comment and the replies, I guess it was
humor-at-a-distance...
;-)
Edward Cherlin wrote:
>
> At 03:22 -0700 8/28/1999, Markus Kuhn wrote:
> >"Tex Texin" wrote on 1999-08-28 09:55 UTC:
> >> > When I was in Korea (1967-1968) telegrams were always written linearly.
> >> I know about ideograms, logograms, and hemigrams. What is a telegram?
> >
> >It's an ideogram seen at a distance (via television, telescope,
> >teleprompter, telefax, telepathy, teleology, etc.).
>
> I see. So a telephone is a speech sound heard at a distance, in the same
> ways? And a telemark is either a recent character in a code & glyph
> standard for Teletext, or a proto-glyph from the Upper Teleolithic? Not to
> be confused with German foreign investments, I presume.
>
> --
> Ed Cherlin edward.cherlin.sy.67@aya.yale.edu
> I was reading a sign high on the wall behind the bar:
> ONLY GENUINE PRE-WAR AMERICAN AND
> BRITISH WHISKEYS SERVED HERE
> I was trying to count how many lies could be found in those nine words, and
> had reached four, with promise of more...
> --Dashiell Hammett, The Golden Horseshoe
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