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- From: sorlin@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Steven J Orlin)
- Newsgroups: alt.personals
- Subject: Re: Who in the hell am I? (RAI)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.024654.13066@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 02:46:54 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.211136.1423@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> cbergstr@magnus.ac
- s.ohio-state.edu (Chris N Bergstresser) tries to justify a worthless major:
- >
- >>
- >>I mean, what is the deal here? As long as you get the point right?
- >
- > Yes, true, the idea _is_ to get your point across, but you forget that
- >language doesn't just communicate ideas. Language also serves to give people
- >an idea of _who_ they are communicating _with_ So, those who are able to give
- >well-written, grammatically correct opinions are regarded as being more correc
- t
- >than those who are unable to.
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- So does this mean that those 'well-spoken, grammatically correct opinions'
- are going to help you out much in a dark blind alley in New York city?
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- steve
- --
- "If you love someone, set them free......If they don't come back....hunt them
- down and kill them."
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