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Subject:Re: (Slight) HUMOUR: Banned Words From:Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 07 Nov 2001 12:23:16 -0500
Marguerite Krupp wrote:
>
> Several people have wondered about WHY people create mangled new words when
> we already have several good words that mean the same thing.
>
> What worries me is not so much the CREATION of these new words, but the fact
> that they rapidly gain currency,
I like currency, especially US$. The more the better. The more rapidly,
the better.
BTW Who makes the fast money, the words or the people?
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Peter
Mailto:peternew -at- optonline -dot- net
Adapting old programs to fit new machines
usually means adapting new machines to
behave like old ones.
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