OT: deos tihs rlaely wrok?

madfifer9 · Post by **madfifer9** » Mon Sep 15, 2003 10:49 pm

Redwolf wrote:Too true. My daughter has a book called "Drunken Goldfish," which describes some of the more ridiculous things government research money has been spent on.

I still remember one study I heard of on NPR, about how SUVs cause more damage in accidents than other personal vehicles. Well, DUH!! How much money did they spend on THAT study?? I could have told them that for nothing.

For some reason, that one really sticks in my mind.

madfifer9

jeffmiester · Post by **jeffmiester** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 12:50 pm

Wombat wrote:
And how exactly do we cope when several different words, each starting with the same letter, have exactly the same letters

the context of the word should do it:

just like desert and desert are spelt the same way, the meaning and pronuciation change with context

"And he crawled for days throughout the desert, to find the perfect desert"

Post by **Nanohedron** » Tue Sep 16, 2003 1:26 pm

jeffmiester wrote:"And he crawled for days throughout the desert, to find the perfect desert"

That would be "dessert", but I think we can desert being nitpicky.