on 22/10/05 12:31 AM, Douglas Barbour at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> sometimes I just fall into cliché, especially
> in journal-mode. I do tend to use that word too much.
oh cliché wasn't my word for it, Doug, these things are partly regional as
well as 'period'. My students (whom I see the last of next week, having
decided to vacate my old office and only haunt the university on rare
occasions) laugh at my quaint old slang, and I puzzle over theirs...
Max
in Melbourne
where cafés continue to colonise the footpaths, and our puppy attracts
passersby while we lunch and look at the spring skies...
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