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At 10:09 AM 9/18/97 -0700, you wrote:
>At 05:00 PM 9/17/97 -0700, Chuck Martin wrote:
>>
>>Much of the jargon in the computer and electronics field was created by
>>engineers who perhaps didn't understand the power that words have. We
>>writers who do understand this seek ways to find words that do not have
>>negative connotations in other areas and words that don't generally have
>>multiple meanings.
>>
>Or perhaps engineers *do* understand the power of words and this is just a
>nefarious plot to impose the language of inequality upon an innocent
>population. You call this the "serious part of the response?"
>
>--Wayne
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