Default User wrote:
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> rec.arts.sf.written regular James Nicholl.
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> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_D._Nicoll>


Cool! Thanks. In addition to its being a good quote, I love the urban
myth that accompanies it, the way something said in usenet starts
getting attributed to writers from a hundred years ago.


(I've now subscribed to sci.lang. My undergraduate course in
linguistics 25 years ago means they're all way out of my league, but
it's such an interesting subject that I'll hang around even if I'm too
outclassed to post much.)


--Lia