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Re: XyWrite update
- Subject: Re: XyWrite update
- From: mike shupp ms44278@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 20:32:51 -0700 (PDT)
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, WooF wrote:
> > An almost perfect one. If only it made thinking up the words to put >
> down as easy as entering them in the text...
>
> You don't have to think up new words; you just have to put the
> exsisting ones (any dictionary has an alphabetized list) in
the right order.
>
> (snicker)
Why write science fiction if one can't cook up a new word from
time to time? You think "epuratory" as a synonym for "acid-bath
processing site" existed before I snuck it into a novel for Del Rey?
My turn to laugh, George...
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Mike Shupp (still happy with 3.51)
California State University, Northridge
Graduate Student, Dept. of Anthropology
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