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Chris -- 2018-04-11
rearview mirror >> revies mirror
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Almost certain to be a fingerslip typo (s below w on the qwerty keyboard), idnit? If not —what does revies mean? a metathesized, or simply misspelt, revise ? Some “rearview mirror†usages do have to do with revising history, but literal ones (and some others as well) do not.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2014-07-02 19:33:07)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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Sorry, I see that revies was indeed a typo and the site (and your title) had review mirror . That’s been reviewed a few times already onsite: e.g. here
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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