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- From: roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips)
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- Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.233723.3251@quantime.co.uk>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 23:37:23 GMT
- References: <BznGFH.KBq@unix.amherst.edu> <BznvL2.F8n@cck.coventry.ac.uk> <Bzo3B2.Mzy@unix.amherst.edu>
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- In article <Bzo3B2.Mzy@unix.amherst.edu>,
- twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) 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:
- > >>... are usually maligned by a hysterical, incredibly myopic media)
- > >... "A hysterical... media"?
- > ...
- > (Not sure, anyway, if you're arguing with my use of the word
- > "hysterical" to describe the mass media, or the use of the word
- > "media" in the singular.
- >
- > If the last, I'll argue that the Latin has been sufficiently bastardized ...
-
- Gasp! Tim, "latter", *please*.
-
- And while the etymology police are on the prowl,
- you'd do better to avoid a word like "hysterical".
- --
- Roger Phillips roger@quantime.co.uk
- "*borborygmus* n. a sound of flatulence in the intestines"
- -- Chambers English Dictionary (1988)
-