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- From: crawford@ben.dev.upenn.edu (Lauren L. Crawford)
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- Subject: Re: Arguing about language
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 15:30:52 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.063613.2724@Princeton.EDU> roger@crux.Princeton.EDU (Roger Lustig) writes:
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- >Words
- >like donate, narrate, reliable, resurrect, greed, tireless, loan (as verb),
- >female, enviable -- all these were attacked with at least the venom
- >we have seen spat at "pro-active" and "concertize" recently -- and
- >the misinformation in the arguments against these words was just
- >the same sort.
-
- Roger, are you saying that no one has the right to dislike a particular
- word? That we must warmly embrace them all, simply because other people
- are using them? That if we dare to express an unfavorable opinion, we
- will -- at least in this discussion group -- be informed that we're full
- of, and I quote you here, "bullshit"?
-
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- The trick of reason is to get the imagination to seize the actual world --
- if only from time to time. -- Annie Dillard, "An American Childhood"
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