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- From: casseres@apple.com (David Casseres)
- Newsgroups: soc.college
- Subject: Tenant of English
- Message-ID: <casseres-211292151808@missmolly.apple.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 23:23:55 GMT
- References: <1992Dec15.160035.6467@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <BzBs7x.97G@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu> <1992Dec16.151519.3485@bmerh85.bnr.ca> <1992Dec16.162635.5438@seas.gwu.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec16.162635.5438@seas.gwu.edu>, willson@seas.gwu.edu
- (Stephen R. Willson) wrote:
- >
- > In article <1992Dec16.151519.3485@bmerh85.bnr.ca> nadeau@bnr.ca (Rheal
- > Nadeau) writes:
- >
- > >Or, in Humpty Dumpty fashion, does a word mean just what you want it to
- > >mean, no more and no less? And anyone who doesn"t instantly realize
- > >what you mean is, of course, prejudiced.
- >
- > Isn't this a basic tenant of English? :-)
-
- I've been a tenant of English all my life, but never thought of using that
- term; it does have a certain poetry to it.
-
- --
-
- David Casseres
- Exclaimer: Wow!
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