From: Polycarp66@aol.com
Date: Tue Apr 11 2000 - 23:40:50 EDT
In a message dated 4/11/2000 9:23:46 PM Central Standard Time,
cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu writes:
<< At 6:45 PM -0600 4/11/00, Wayne Leman wrote:
>>
>>hO ESTIN MEQERMHNEUOMENON
>>
>>Words having the same form can have different meanings.
>
>Indeed, and in the commercial fishing family I come from, we illustrate it
>as:
>
>We can fish.
>
>it's a sign,
>IXQUS,
><:==}
>many fish,
>many carp,
>poly carp :)
Gee whiz, Wayne--and poly carp also implies a big catch, don't it?
--
>>
Mercy! My sides are splitting.
Who says Greek is dull?
gfsomsel
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