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- From: mcoffin@IASTATE.EDU (Marie Coffin)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: letter to Mandar
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.103814@IASTATE.EDU>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 15:38:14 GMT
- References: <92212.135647GRV101@psuvm.psu.edu> <UeS7y5a00WBLE6qmUe@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- Reply-To: mcoffin@IASTATE.EDU (Marie Coffin)
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- In article <UeS7y5a00WBLE6qmUe@andrew.cmu.edu>, "Benjamin D. Lukoff"
- <bl2m+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- > In "Letter to Mandar" Gregson Vaux writes "...from your posting I would
- > guess that you are about seventeen. You are full of passion but very
- > little knowledge". Now, if you've been reading all the postings over the
- > past few days you will see that I agree with most of you, i.e. Mandar
- > has it wrong. However, don't assume he's a teenager. I happen to be
- > seventeen as well and I don't like it when people assume just because
- > you're not in college yet you don't know anything.
- >
- > BENJAMIN LUKOFF, Carnegie-Mellon University Pre-College, Pittsburgh, PA
-
- No, Ben, we think that seventeen-year-olds are full of idealism and youthful
- enthusiasm to set the world straight. Take it as a compliment.
-
- Marie Coffin
-