Subject: Re: mdua border changes<br/>
Date: Jan 20, 2002 @ 21:33<br/>
Author: ps1966nl (&quot;ps1966nl&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1531974415">michael donner wrote:<br/>
(...)logic & sense dictate that things be named logically & sensibly<br/>
that is in this case at least named for how they are treated as you <br/>
say or how they function i would add hence only quasi & not pene <br/>
seems to me logical & sensible since quasi actually means fully  as if<br/>
but pene means only  almost or nearly (...)<br/>
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I couldn&#39;t have put it more clearly than you have.<br/>
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(...)it doesnt matter that the pene words are illogical & senseless<br/>
so long as we all understand & agree what we are doing & what we are <br/>
actually saying & meaning by them even as i for one dont understand<br/>
but i am not much into treatment & function anyway so dont mind me<br/>
i will just hang in here (...)<br/>
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Now this is not even false modesty. The _function_ of words is <br/>
_understanding_, isn&#39;t it???<br/>
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Peter S.</div>