Oh come on - anything with more than five syllables must be considered both
elegant and appropriate.
Would you describe yourself as, each night, 'assuming the horizontal posture'?
Or resting horizontally?
Is the person in that position one to whom you are in the habit of describing
by means of the perpendicular pronoun?
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On 20/01/2014, at 7:40 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> Hmmm, that looks* like an unnecessary invention of a noun, Andrew. Lacking
> the perpendicular would have been more elegant, perhaps :-)
>
> Chris
>
> *I know, it's in the dictionary . . . cb
>
> On 19 Jan 14, at 20:09, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I was just thinking exactly that, noting the trend in the Great Wen for new
>> buildings lacking perpendicularity.
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