[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Spitzmueller) writes:
| Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:
| > Why is:
| >
| > "Once upon ... ever after"
| >
| > better than:
| >
| > "Once upon a time there..."
|
| Because I can copy two different (long) shapes of a phrase:
| a.) "Once upon a time there was a source maintainer who instisted on the
| theory that a string is string regardless of ellipses or what comes ever
| after"
| b.) "Once upon a time there was a source maintainer"
|
| How can I distinguish these? (and this is certainly an example of my
| [perhaps weird] writing real life).
The items are listed in reverse chronological order.
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