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- From: paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: What is wrong with "rule of thumb" ?
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 06:08:00 GMT
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- Reply-To: paul.burnett@pcs.sj.ca.us (Paul Burnett)
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- TO: casseres@apple.com (David Casseres)
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- DC>In any case, I agree that it would be foolish to avoid this useful phrase
- >just because some people think it has a brutal origin that hardly anyone
- >else knows about.
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- Then (IMHO) you don't understand the incredible lengths to which
- proponents of Political Correctness will go. No matter how obscure or
- rare a word or phrase, if at any time or place it might have the
- slightest possibility of offending any being, it shall not be used by
- any Politically Correct being.
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- . OLX 3.0 07-2042 . ...from San Jose, CA
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