Re: floating a destroyer

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

I will poll all the members I can (in a reasonable time).

bc  Who again corrects the name of the Gillespie St. Eng. Speaking. Soc.


Hugh Haskell wrote:

> At 19:37 -0700 8/7/01, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
>
> > Zero is (also) a violation of the english language.  (I know,
> > everyone does it,
> > at least occasionally.)  If there's no liquid, it's not floating;
> > it's resting.
> > I suspect the English Speaking Society would object to one molecule thick, but
> > not all members of this list.
> >
> > bc         A member of the English Speaking Society, who would require the
> > thickness
> >             be sufficient to be visible to the std. "Man."
>
> I always defer to those who are willing to make the effort to use the
> language precisely, as I am usually pretty lakadasical about it, esp.
> on this list, it seems.
>
> But just what is the English Speaking Society's alternative to "zero"?
>
> Hugh
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