On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Hadriel Kaplan <hkap...@acmepacket.com> wrote: > > Fascinating. I had no idea that there even *was* such a phrase in common > usage, let alone that there was known etymology for it. One learns something > new every day. > But I meant it quite literally: a moderate/humble/etc. proposal for Friday > meeting schedule.
English is funny that way, and it's one of the things that make it such a difficult language to learn. A great deal of the meaning is not in the literal meaning of a given chain of words, but is also contained in the historical and literary allusions that given phrases may have, which often have the direct opposite or at least very different meaning than the literal words. ..m _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
