Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I've had conversations with people on Christmas Island via amateur radio. One of the people I spoke with told me was that the missionary who complied the first dictionary of the native language broke the "S" key on his typewriter. So he substituted "ti" for "s." And the retit is hititory. --Peter At 11:22 PM 2/24/05 -0800, B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net> smote his forehead and exclaimed: >Slow. Realllllll slllllllloooooooowwwwwwwww. >The funny thing is that I recall having read the part about the >radiation, the scrap metal, the bone fishing, and the light - but I have >absolutely no recollection of the pronunciation guide and the fact that >it was Christmas Island. That's not a good sign, is it? :-(