20:34, giovedì 3 luglio 2008, Paul:
> On 3 Jul, 04:09, ADPUF <flyhun...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 20:27, mercoledì 2 luglio 2008, Paul:
>
> "Let me try again: if a pipe smoker has three pipes, that
> smoker can alternate among them. "
>
> He can not, at least, for the time being. He will have to be
> satisfied with 'choosing one of the three pipes' or 'one among
> the three'.
> ( If he chooses all three at once and smokes, he's sure to
> choke!)
:-)
What you mean is that every time the smoker chooses one of the
pipes among three, but how can you stress the meaning of "using
every time a different pipe in a given order"?
(BTW, you wrote "he" but I carefully avoided to write that the
smoker is a man ;-)
> But then, language evolves and may be, just may be , if you
> get lucky, they'll alternate between three things two hundred
> years from now. Keep your fingers crossed!
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