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Subject: Re: Vs: Vs: [Leica] OT: Scotch
From: "Dan Post" <dpost@triad.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 09:20:24 -0700
References: <B57326D3.4E54%howard.390@osu.edu>

AHA- and you thought he was just a 'geeky' computer nerd!
I don't think he fell out of a Leica box just yesterday!
:o)
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: Vs: Vs: [Leica] OT: Scotch


> Brian Reid jotted down the following:
>
> >> Well, a certain Russian pre-emptively collectively flamed us for
> >> this very topic recently, but ...
> >
> > If you study his use of the English language you will realize that he
> > is an American, not a Russian. He's sending email from an account in
> > Russia, but that doesn't have to mean that he lives there. His
> > sentence structure has a faint Romance edge to it. I'd guess from his
> > language patterns that he grew up near Chicago but moved to western
Europe
> > as a young adult.
> >
>
> Wow!  I'm not sure whether I should be impressed at your analytical
ability,
> or a little worried that the List Meister reads the messages THAT
> carefully... ;)
>
> M.
>
> --
> Martin Howard                 | Trying to determine human performance by
> Visiting Scholar, CSEL, OSU   | experiments is nothing but the ritual of
> email: howard.390@osu.edu     | The Ballet for the Gods of Invariance.
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