OT: A political/personal review (was - RE: Two for the road, Report from Clerk & Nonstandard Subtotals)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 06:43:06AM -0600, Lerebours, Jose wrote:
> JP wondered:
> > | John post was offensive to me as a reader let alone to Brian.  I
> > | think it was insulting and as usual, questioned a member's skills
> > | and intelligence.  Why should John denounce Brian skills as lower
> > | than Howie?  I have seen some of Howie's post to this list and they
> > | leave much to question coming from Howie - They are proof that
> > | even Howie does NOT know it all (John is on that plato on his own).
> > 
> > Plato? What does Plato have to do with any of this?  Or Socrates or
> > Aristophanes or Homer or any other of those ancient Greeks?
> 
> >From the Spanish word "plato" which means "platform" or "level" ... 
> or at least as intended.  I guess I should have enclosed it within 
> quotes or something.
> 
> You disappoint me.  You know enough Spanish to have picked that up!

"plateau".

According to Merriam Webster, from the Old French, as the orthography
had led me to believe.  BabelFish says the Spanish equivalent is
"meseta".

Cheers,
-- jra
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