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- From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Word peeve
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 02:47:43 GMT
- Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
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- In article <9212272149.AA27366@saffron.eedsp.gatech.edu.gatech.edu> eedsp!bill@gatech.UUCP writes:
- >
- >Why is it so vogue to say "persons" when using "people" would work?
- >
- >"Persons traveling on secondary roads should watch out for ice and slick
- > spots on bridges and overpasses."
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- This has been the focus of a long-running debate between far-sundered
- camps in the usage armies, and will not be so quickly resolved.
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- The only feasible solution is to compromise, and use instead the
- simple and expressive phrase "If you be."
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