Subj : Drain To : mark lewis From : Anton Shepelev Date : Tue Jul 14 2020 14:45:30 )(ark Lewis: ML> but yeah, i went back upthread and looked... the ML> original re:"... about polo" statement, that dallas ML> wrote, had "of everything" in it... AK dropped that "of" ML> somehow... i do similar... a lot... my fingers type what ML> they want to type instead of what my brain is telling ML> them to type 8-| AK is very careful and meticulous. It was his intent, rather than mistake, to drop the `of'. He proposed to use `drain' in a sense similar to `confide' or `tell' -- to let information out, to let it pour out of you as if by removing a stopper. --- * Origin: nntps://news.fidonet.fi (2:221/6.0) .