Re: BK/Web improvements (includes patch server)

[Jamie Lokier]

Andy Isaacson wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:10:57PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > Andy Isaacson @bitmover.com wrote:
> > > 'cuz I don't get pissed when people say "thanks for bending over,
> > > now bend over farther".
> > 
> > Oh, is that what it's like working for Larry :)
> 
> It's an amusing feature of English that leaving out the word "backwards"
> can so drastically change the meaning of a sentence, without actually
> changing its meaning.

I'm not sure which is the more satisfying image -- bending over
forwards for Larry, or bending over backwards for him ;)

> (I wonder if this is peculiar to American English, or to my dialect, or
> if it's shared with British.  Linguist BCCed.)

Is he any linguist or a cunning linguist?

-- Jamie
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