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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!paladin.american.edu!auvm!CS.UCHICAGO.EDU!SAMANT
  2. From: samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU
  3. Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
  4. Subject: Re: My Top 10
  5. Message-ID: <9212211746.AA09598@tartarus.uchicago.edu>
  6. Date: 21 Dec 92 17:46:57 GMT
  7. Sender: English Language Discussion Group <WORDS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu>
  8. Lines: 13
  9. Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
  10. Return-Path: <samant@cs.uchicago.edu>
  11.  
  12. >>>>>setting discriptions.  I would like to know what standard W-L usage
  13. >>>>>is I don't look like a stupid newbie. =:-)
  14. >>>    ^so
  15. >>>
  16. >>I find it inconsistent not because of a missing "so" but because of what
  17. >>it seems to mean.
  18. >
  19. >You mean that following standard usage implies conformity, not intelligence?
  20.  
  21. I am talking about words-l, newbieness, and so on, while you are talking
  22. about conformity, intelligence and wossname. Now how can I help this?
  23.  
  24. tushar
  25.