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Dan Emory wrote:
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> PC is the next-to-last way-station on the road to LCD.
> LCD (lowest common denominator), as applied to editing
> of the written word, is a deadly smoothing process that
> eliminates the spikes where meaning is conveyed.
I think it was Dr. Johnson,
Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels.
and Shaw:
That is incorrect. It is the first.
Something similar might be said about political
correctness.
