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- From: idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid)
- Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
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- References: <BznGFH.KBq@unix.amherst.edu> <BznvL2.F8n@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <1992Dec22.180544.23713@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:11:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.180544.23713@cbnews.cb.att.com> eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (Piglet) writes:
- >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:
- >>>hysterical, incredibly myopic media) it wouldn't invalidate my quote.
- >>>They teach us something about grammar, at least.
- >>
- >>Tim, Tim; glass houses, dear friend. "A hysterical... media"?
- >
- >Kay, Kay, Kay; you're sweet, you're adorable, and you're wrong.
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- Oh, spank me, spank me... and I'm positively glowing with the
- "sweet and adorable". Perhaps a small Pigleting episode in my
- Great US Tour? (When I can work out where Att is, that is :))
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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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- Media *are not* a collective noun (or, at least they shouldn't be).
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- >Piglet, shameless grammar snob
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- Kay, prescriptivist Bad Man and pedantophiliac :)
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- Kay
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- Kay Dekker, Dept of Industrial Design, Coventry University, Coventry UK
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