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Re: KLBC:Name that Song

• From: [email protected] (Alan Anderson)
• Subject: Re: KLBC:Name that Song
• Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 22:09:39 -0500

>>Okay, which is it?  You seem to say that you agree with Ford that "Rage"
>>is a noun, but you then use it as a verb.  Is the band's name supposed to
>>mean "complain angrily and violently about" the machine, or is it supposed
>>to mean "violent anger which is placed adjacent to" the machine?

beHwI"av writes:
>The former, "complain angrily and violently about", this is why I find it so
>detrimental that there is not a word for "against". Can you understand how
>important it is for the concept as a whole?

No, I can't understand how the lack of a single word can be so detrimental.
If you can't come up with another way to accurately express the idea, then
I suspect you do not clearly understand the underlying idea itself.  Have
you seen the other proposed translations for this sentence?  What do you
think of them?

-- ghunchu'wI'               batlh Suvchugh vaj batlh SovchoH vaj

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