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  1. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!UGA.CC.UGA.EDU!BBAXTER
  3. Message-ID: <WORDS-L%92122018153897@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
  4. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  5. Date:         Sun, 20 Dec 1992 18:08:59 EST
  6. Sender:       English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  7. From:         Brad Baxter <BBAXTER@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  8. Subject:      Re: My Top 10
  9. In-Reply-To:  Message of Sun,
  10.               20 Dec 1992 04:08:08 CST from <samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU>
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  13. >>>>setting discriptions.  I would like to know what standard W-L usage
  14. >>>>is I don't look like a stupid newbie. =:-)
  15. >>    ^so
  16. >>>I find that last sentence internally inconsistent.
  17. >I find it inconsistent not because of a missing "so" but because of what
  18. >it seems to mean.
  19. >tushar
  20.  
  21. You mean that following standard usage implies conformity, not intelligence?
  22.  
  23. * Alt-Brad *
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