Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/24

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Subject: [Leica] opening bell
From: pklein at 2alpha.net (Peter Klein)
Date: Thu Feb 24 23:42:03 2005
 
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? :-(
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