Re: White Coat Day

Skitt wrote:
Mike Lyle wrote:
J. J. Lodder wrote:
<blmblm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
your posts appear to be a kind of free verse -- but
I'm really curious about whether this is deliberate on your part,
or an artifact of your newsreader [...]

It's not an artifact.
[...]

Others should see the same,

Funny,
how "artefact"
has changed not only its meaning
but even
its spelling.

Well,
not funny at all, really:
I think it's sad.

I
suppose it's far too late
to set up separate meanings
for the
-e-
and
-i-
versions.

*Artefact* is
a chiefly British variant
of *artifact*,
says M-W Online.

"Artefact" is a slightly strange truncation, I suppose; but truncating
it _and_ swapping in the dative instead of the ablative makes "artifact"
even odder. But the shift in meaning is more interesting.

--
Mike.



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