Re: BK/Web improvements (includes patch server)

[Andy Isaacson]

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

-andy
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