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"Make lightness and simplificate."
Or something like that. I think it was Colin Chapman but I'm not sure. Any ideas?


Joel Schmidt
 
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"Simplify and add lightness"
"To make it go faster you will have to add lightness"

Colin Chapman
 
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Colin Chapman was English and would never have used a word like simplificate :-p

America seems to have developed this fascination with adding -est, -ate, and -ize to all sorts of words for which they were never intended.

I don't mean that in a rude way, but just to make the point that English and American English are often very different languages.

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Don't be so stereotypificating ben. Wink


-Charlie Ping

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Wasn't the Colin Chapman quote a bit more like:

"Add lightness and simplicity ... Mate"

or

"To make it go faster you will have to get a HSV with a big donk and a no fear sticker"

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Or if he was W:

"Addify lightitude and simplificiness ..."


John Bucknell

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