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Subject:Re: Semantics and considerate usage From:Beverly Parks <bparks -at- HUACHUCA-EMH1 -dot- ARMY -dot- MIL> Date:Wed, 7 Jun 1995 11:21:38 MST
"Arlen P. Walker" <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM> said-->
(snipped a lot of good stuff...)
> .... Words by themselves are merely vibrations of the air
> when spoken, ink residue on a page when written. They have
> only as much power over us as we let them have.
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Or the law says they have. Remember contracts?
(Cute retort aside, I agree with you Arlen.) :)
Bev
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