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My apologies. I understood your "legendary" in the context of, say, "the legendary baseball player Babe Ruth." I stand corrected.
by Lupin on Thu Jun 21st, 2007 at 02:15:11 AM EST
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oh right.  I tend to forget the colloquial usage (which I confess always irritates me a bit, like 'reticent' used where 'reluctant' would have been correct).  'apocryphal' would have been clearer, though in this literate crowd it might have sparked a storm of contentious biblical scholarship :-)

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...
by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Thu Jun 21st, 2007 at 07:09:36 PM EST
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and btw, no apology necessary and hello Lupin, nice to see ya, how's the expat life?

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...
by DeAnander (de_at_daclarke_dot_org) on Thu Jun 21st, 2007 at 07:10:46 PM EST
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