| Ulrich M. Schwarz 2005-12-15, 4:03 am |
| Dan Sommers <me@privacy.net> writes:
> On 14 Dec 2005 09:45:02 -0800,
> "Dan" <luecking@uark.edu> wrote:
>
>
> And now all I can think of is an economy that is (a) crude, and (b)
> based on oil (which should have been rendered as "a crude, oil based
> economy" or "a crude, oil-based economy").
In German, this would suggest that crude and oil-based are somewhat
orthogonal to each other. If we assume for the moment the 60's SF
stance that the two major choices are oil-based (old, crude) and
fission-based (new, sophisticated), they would be the crude
oil-based economy and the sophisticated fission-based economy (since
we assume there cannot be a sophisticated oil-based economy).
Fortunately, we tend to have gianttapewormwordcompounds to avoid
that.
> Who invented this language, anyway?
Yeah, let's throw it out and build a new one. ;-)
Ulrich
(or was it the other way around? I think I've got it right.)
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