Digital BW, The Print

Hee, hee.

Thanks for the vocabulary lesson. I had even checked the Oxford English
Dictionary with no sign of Mr. Dickbone's inane adjective. ;-)

Thanks,
Mike


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Marquis-Kyle" <petermk@...>
To: <DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] New MIS FS Neutral Inks are GREAT!


> Michael Kravit, responding to Dickbo, asked
>
> > BTW, what in the world does "Prattish" mean?  What is a Favron? Never
ran
> > accross these words before.
>
> I think I can help here. 'Prattish' is probably coined from 'prat' -- "In
> British English, if you describe someone as a prat, you are saying in an
unkind
> way that you think that they are very stupid or foolish; an informal
word."
> [Collins Cobuild English Dictionary, 1995]
>
> To use an older idiom, Dickbo is the pot calling the kettle black.
>
> As to Favron, I think he means Foveon.
>
> This Dickbo character reminds me of the Dicky (Richard Corbett) who used
to hang
> around the filmscanners mailing list. Did they both go to the same English
> finishing school?
>
> Peter Marquis-Kyle
>
>
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