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- From: Furr@cup.portal.com (George Dalton Madison)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Capitalization (dubious MOTSS content)
- Message-ID: <72681@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 22:53:37 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <C03FEL.I7H@fig.citib.com>
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- Brent Davies writes:
- >Think about this. What's the difference between these two sentences:
- >
- >"I'm from the city."
- >"I'm from the City."
- >
- >In the second example, don't you immediately think of one and *only* one
- >place that could possibly be being referred to?
- >
- >And at the risk of causing an international brawl, might I ask (out of
- >curiosity) what that place is?
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- San Francisco, of course.
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- () -- A.A. Latimer
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