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- From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
- Subject: Re: Language and Kitchen Tools (Was: Orientals . . .)
- In-Reply-To: ataylor@nmsu.edu's message of Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:39:22 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:47:16 GMT
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- <In article <1993Jan21.203337.16313@netcom.com> rickg@netcom.com (Rick Gordon) writes:
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- <In article <ATAYLOR.93Jan20215359@gauss.nmsu.edu> Nosy writes:
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- <> [ ... ]
- <> Only superficially. The Soviets spilled literally oceans
- <> of blood and of ink to create the "New Soviet Man", a
- <> creature that would live the Communist ideal.
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- <NitPeeve: "Literally", when used as an intensifier, changing the sense
- <of a statement to meaninglessness.
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- How so? It is hyperbole to write about oceans of blood,
- in most cases, but the Bolsheviks killed around 100
- million people. That's what, 100 million times a couple
- of gallons?
-
- <It grates, is what it does.
-
- Not only that, it slices, dices, peels, Juliannes,
- mashes....send cash, check or money-order to
- Stalin's Kitchen.
-