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- From: eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (Piglet)
- Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 18:05:44 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.180544.23713@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- References: <BzM7s7.22DL@austin.ibm.com> <BznGFH.KBq@unix.amherst.edu> <BznvL2.F8n@cck.coventry.ac.uk>
- Sender: eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (eleanor.j.evans)
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- In article <BznvL2.F8n@cck.coventry.ac.uk> idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid) writes:
- >In article <BznGFH.KBq@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
- >>Assuming for the moment that Andrea Dworkin's suggestions are
- >>clueless, inappropriate, and nonsensical (and it's been my experience
- >>that feminists who are perceived to be such are usually maligned by a
- >>hysterical, incredibly myopic media) it wouldn't invalidate my quote.
- >>
- >>>Do they teach you the fine art of
- >>>putdown's at Amherst?
- >>
- >>They teach us something about grammar, at least.
- >
- >Tim, Tim; glass houses, dear friend. "A hysterical... media"?
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- Kay, Kay, Kay; you're sweet, you're adorable, and you're wrong.
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- "Media" is a collective noun, which may be referenced in the
- singular _or_ the plural, depending on context...
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- Piglet, shameless grammar snob
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