BotNS in German

Matthew Malthouse · 04 Dec 2004, 01:23 · from 2004-December.txt.gz

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From: matthew.malthouse at ntlworld.com (Matthew Malthouse)
Date: Sat Dec  4 01:23:08 2004
Subject: (urth) BotNS in German
In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20041204013348.01ca0ef0 at pop.gmx.net>
References: <20041203235555.73231.qmail at web14726.mail.yahoo.com>
	<6.2.0.14.0.20041203214147.03cf27b0 at pop.gmx.net>
	<20041203235555.73231.qmail at web14726.mail.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.0.20041204084219.02d16d08 at pop.ntlworld.com>

At 00:51 04/12/2004, Hmpf MacSlow wrote:
>In English, you can always find a more complicated way to say something 
>simple (E.g. 'barbican' for 'watchtower').

Except that barbican and watchtower each have specific and disparate 
meanings which should bring quite different images to a reader's mind.

Matthew

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