Re: Close enough

From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Mon Feb 26 2001 - 13:53:56 EST


On 02/26/2001 11:53:27 AM dank wrote:

>Wait a minute.... You want to insert this:
>
>ISOMORPHIC BOWL-OF-WRATH SPANNER WITH JEWS HARP ACCOMPANIMENT.
>
>Can't you use instead the existing american equivelent?
>
>"ISOMORPHIC BOWL-OF-WRATH WRENCH WITH JEWS HARP ACCOMPANIMENT"
>
>Should be close enough....

Ah, but the Spanner I was thinking of was a spaceship from a short story by
Arthur C. Clark (or was it Azimov?). (The story tells of this ship flying
too close to a neutron star, leaving nothing but a star-mangled Spanner.)
So, these are most certainly distinct and unrelated characters.

- Peter

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