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Topics of the day:



 1. books by Chambers and by Chaika (3)

 2. Interesting Free Offer........... (9)

 3. P.S.



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Date:  Tue, 9 Apr 1996 09:24:47 -0500

From:  "Timothy C. Frazer" <mftcf[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UXA.ECN.BGU.EDU>

Subject: Re: books by Chambers and by Chaika



On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, Natalie Maynor wrote:



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> I wish Wardhaugh and Chaika would mate (the books, that is) and produce

> an offspring that had the substance of Wardhaugh and the readability of

> Chaika.

Amen.



I've tried both and have not been totally happy with either of

> them. Wardhaugh seems to have gone out of his way to make a potentially

> interesting subject as boring as possible. Chaika, OTOH, doesn't include

> quite as much depth or detail as I'd like to see in a textbook.

Exactly.



Bertter yet would be a fusion of Wolfram and Chaika.



Tim