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- From: ecoughlan@desire.wright.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.personals
- Subject: Re: Who in the hell am I? (RAI)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.104831.6760@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 10:48:31 EST
- References: <1993Jan21.152811.26399@ <1993Jan22.161337.22461@magnus.acs.ohio-st <1993Jan23.024654.13066@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan23.024654.13066@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, sorlin@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Steven J Orlin) writes:
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > 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?
- >
- Maybe not. But, child, your personality CERTAINLY isn't going to help you
- out much in a dark blind alley in NYC (or anywhere else!).
- >
- > steve
- > --
- > "If you love someone, set them free......If they don't come back....hunt them
- > down and kill them."
- > -=sorlin@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu -???
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