From: Robert Owen (rowen@technologist.com)
Date: Sat Dec 18 1999 - 01:48:26 MST
Michael M Butler wrote:
> Not very arguably. A'a might be the shortest _noun_ (it's a Hawai'ian word,
> originally), but I and a are both shorter English words.
Since it's a slow news night, I want to thank you for your detailed
explication of "A'a" -- I must agree, I ought to have said "to only an
infinitesimal degree arguably" but I rejected it on aethetic as well as
syntactic grounds. I think Helga meant "noun", and I was fixated on its
virtues for Scrabble.
Happy Holidays,
Bob
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