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- From: gjh@galen.med.Virginia.EDU (Galen J. Hekhuis)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.212414.3149@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Organization: University of Virginia Health Sciences Center
- References: <1993Jan16.215258.14511@rotag.mi.org> <C1C4nn.JB3@news.cso.uiuc.edu> <1993Jan24.171605.23629@rotag.mi.org>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:24:14 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan24.171605.23629@rotag.mi.org> kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
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- >Heh. Sarcasm noted. Most linguists I've met have nothing for disdain for
- >self-styled "language purists" who attempt to impose their ideas of how
- >people "should" communicate, on the rest of us. That disdain usually turns
- >to outright loathing when a specialist, whether it be from the field of
- >law, medicine, computer science, physics or whatever, attempts to usurp
- >terms in the common lexicon with their particular flavor of jargon. Let
- >jargon stay jargon, I say. If I wanted to talk in medical jargon, I would
- >have gone into medicine. But I didn't.
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- Kevin, on the other hand, seems to be one of those who would like to
- define and purify terms in the "common lexicon" and tell us what they
- mean and inform us on their use...
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