<div dir="ltr">dam wright</div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM John P. Linderman <<a href="mailto:jpl.jpl@gmail.com">jpl.jpl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM G. Branden Robinson <<a href="mailto:g.branden.robinson@gmail.com" target="_blank">g.branden.robinson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">At 2025-02-11T11:05:25-0500, Norman Wilson wrote:<br>
> John P. Linderman (not the JPL in Altadena):<br>
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> On a faux-cultural note, Arthur C Clark wrote the "Nine Billion<br>
> Names of God" in the 50s.<br>
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> Ken wishes he'd spelled it Clarke, as the author did.<br>
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So you're saying "Clarke" is like "create()"...<br>
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I surmis that Ken was on a wortwhil cours to mak the English languag<br>
simpl. W should declin to writ the ultimat "e" in a word everywher<br>
possibl.<br>
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Regards,<br>
Branden<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">The e was not only silent, it was invisible. Except to those who are exceptionally ... -- jpl</div></div></div>
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