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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!exodus.Eng.Sun.COM!abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM!banta
  2. From: banta@abingdon.Eng.Sun.COM (242 lbs before cooking)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.peeves
  4. Subject: Re: Orientals . . .
  5. Date: 22 Jan 1993 15:20:37 GMT
  6. Organization: FizzBall Racing
  7. Lines: 13
  8. Message-ID: <lm0465INN8mc@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
  9. References: <1993Jan19.210718.6344@igor.tamri.com> <1ji6otINNffl@CATHY.NA.CS.YALE.EDU> <ATAYLOR.93Jan20215359@gauss.nmsu.edu> <1993Jan21.203337.16313@netcom.com>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: abingdon
  11.  
  12. (Rick Gordon) writes:
  13. >NitPeeve: "Literally", when used as an intensifier, changing the sense
  14. >of a statement to meaninglessness.  It grates, is what it does.
  15.  
  16. Anti-peeve:  That *someone* bitched about this, after I briefly toyed
  17. with the idea.
  18.  
  19. drew
  20. banta@abingdon.sun.com
  21. --
  22. "The only sports are auto racing and bull fighting, all the rest are games."
  23.  
  24.                         --Ernest Hemingway
  25.