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Subject:Now it's Monday WAS RE: Friday... From:Bill Burns <BillDB -at- ILE -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 15 Sep 1997 09:23:03 -0600
By all parameters, this discussion is giving me paraparesis.
Paraphrastically, I'm sorry I committed this parapraxis.
Bill Burns
Technical Writer
ILE Communications Group
billdb -at- ile -dot- com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Parks, Beverly [SMTP:ParksB -at- EMH1 -dot- HQISEC -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL]
> Sent: Friday, September 12, 1997 1:27 PM
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re: Friday...
>
> >>>>> >Seriously, though, it's a horrible paragraph. The parataxis is
> enough
> >>>>>to
> >>>>> >make my butt squinch.
> >>>>> >
> >>>>> Ok, I'll bite. What's parataxis?
> >
> >Bev Parks:
> >>It's what you hail when all your luggage won't fit into one taxi.
> >
> >Liz Shultz:
> >>Oh, I thought it was the militarized branch of standard taxi
> service...
> >
> >Bev:
> >>Or the airborne branch. ("Geronimoooooo....")
> >
> >Teresa:
> >Or practicing to be (and subsidiary to) a real taxi.
> >
> >Eric's gonna kill us!
> >
> Bev:
> Ooh. Good point. We don't need a parapsychologist to predict that
> event.
> The mere thought makes even my parakeet paranoid. This definitely
> strays
> from the TECHWR-L paradigm. I'm paralyzed to think of a parallel.
> Perhaps someone should call a paramedic. Like a parasite stuck in
> parafin, I feel compelled to break free from this parataxis thread. A
> paragon to all, this shall be my last paragraph about that word.
> >
>
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