It's Lens

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:51:21 -0900, (Floyd
L. Davidson) wrote:

"Jeff R." wrote:
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"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
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From: "JimKramer"

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| Richard Polhill wrote:
The word is lens: there is no trailing E.

Take the time to check a dictionary every now and then.

Thank you
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| Excellent advice, prudent and wise indeed and action. :-)
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| http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lense

Excellent !
In International News Groups one can not get hung up on spelling
variations.

To me, it is impolite to even correct anyone's English, unless the meaning
is ambivalent,
^^^^^^^^^^

Surely you meant "ambiguous".

:-)

"Abivalent" is not ambiguous in that statement.

He could have used "ambiguous", and that wouldn't be abivalent either.

Which is because, of course, the two words are synonyms, and therefore
ambiguous is abivalent and abivalent is abiguous, when used properly,
as he did.

Got that?

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/d.../d0081545.html

Got that?

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"Jeff R." wrote:
"William Graham" wrote:
"David H. Lipman" wrote:
From: "JimKramer"
| Richard Polhill wrote:
The word is lens: there is no trailing E.

Take the time to check a dictionary every now and then.

Thank you
|
| Excellent advice, prudent and wise indeed and action. :-)
|
| http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lense

Excellent !
In International News Groups one can not get hung up on spelling
variations.

To me, it is impolite to even correct anyone's English, unless the
meaning is ambivalent,
^^^^^^^^^^

Surely you meant "ambiguous".

Nah. He meant ambivalent. Ambivalent posts are no fun in newsgroups; they
don't provide any fodder for flaming.

David J. Littleboy
Tokyo, Japan

I thought it was lenze.

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"Richard Polhill" wrote in message
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The word is lens: there is no trailing E.

Take the time to check a dictionary every now and then.

Thank you

Richard Polhill wrote:
The word is lens: there is no trailing E.

Take the time to check a dictionary every now and then.

Thank you

English is one of the worst languages when it comes to spelling because it
has few "rules" that remain unbroken.


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"Pudentame" wrote in message
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Jeff R. wrote:

Surely you meant "ambiguous".

Nah. I can use either hand.

I'd give my left arm to be ambivalent.

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David H. Lipman wrote:


Excellent !
In International News Groups one can not get hung up on spelling
variations.

Indeed I spell lens "Raymond Luxury Yacht"...




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William Graham wrote:

After all, If I had to post in another language, it would be a miracle if
anyone could understand me at all!

That's the issue, I suspect "lense" is American English whereas "lens" is
English English.

Pete


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"Bruce" wrote in message
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Gummo, you ignorant slut. The word is of course "color".
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/colour

Bold donor! Bold donor!
:¬)

Gummo

Richard Polhill wrote:
The word is lens: there is no trailing E.

Take the time to check a dictionary every now and then.

Not unless you buy it at "Ye Aulde Lense Shoppe"...
;-)

JimKramer wrote:


Richard Polhill wrote:
The word is lens: there is no trailing E.

Take the time to check a dictionary every now and then.

Thank you

Excellent advice, prudent and wise indeed and action. :-)

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lense

Sir,

I refer you to the reference you cite:

"Main Entry: lens
Variant: also lense /'lenz/ "

It's probably better to use the main variant.

This could go on for weeks...

;-)




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