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Adam Tauno Williams adam at morrison-ind.com
Wed Jul 27 08:26:08 EDT 2005


> >1.) find (man find), a segue (since Bob insists on the Italian spelling)
> Um, I found that spelling in an ENGLISH dictionary, and AFAIK, it is the 
> ONLY spelling for a word of that meaning.

Okay, true.  But my experience is that no one (at least where I work)
can read "segue" and have any idea what your talking about.  I concede
the point but stand by my 21st century spelling of "segway".  

> Etymology: Italian, there follows, from seguire to follow, from Latin sequi

Yep, I know this.  Latin "sequi" is also where we get "sequel".

> The Spelling used "segway" was not found in any dictionary just checked, 

Not yet!  I'm cutting edge. :)  Evolution still underlines it as wrong
too.

> but is the brand name for a series of small gyrostabilized 2 wheel vehicles.

I been to the inventor's house; very very cool.  His stair climbing
wheel chair is much more 31337 than the segway scooter things - I really
don't get what they are supposed to be for.  They're slow, expensive,
and can't climb hills.   Someday I want to be able to go the 2 miles
from my house to my office in something other than a huge infernal
combustion machine that costs a fortune,  but the trip is nearly as
vertical as it is horizontal which always rules out something that
depends on batteries.  And riding a motor bike through down-town is like
wearing a big target on your back and carrying a sign that says "squish
me please".



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