Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!ntt From: ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader) Newsgroups: net.nlang Subject: Interesting sentence Message-ID: <895@dciem.UUCP> Date: Fri, 27-Apr-84 12:04:12 EST Article-I.D.: dciem.895 Posted: Fri Apr 27 12:04:12 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 27-Apr-84 14:14:37 EST References: <1146@seismo.UUCP> Organization: NTT Systems Inc., Toronto, Canada Lines: 10 Seen in net.books (see References:)... "The author is the brother of the writer". Apparently this means that the author of the book in question is the brother of a better-known writer of the same surname. (I say apparently because I hadn't heard of either.) The interesting part is that one could equally well reverse the first and third nouns... Mark Brader