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- From: yozzo@watson.ibm.com (Ralph Yozzo)
- Subject: Re: Doublespeak Awards
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:12:21 GMT
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- Personally, I like the one that Used Watch and Car salesman use:
- The car (or watch) is not USED, it is PRE-OWNED.
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- I've actually heard the following at meetings:
- One department wanted to get paid for some work they were planning
- to do, but they did not ask for CASH. Instead, they asked for
- some MONETARY FEEDBACK.
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- Ralph Yozzo (yozzo@watson.ibm.com)
- From the beautiful and historic Mid-Hudson Valley area of NY state
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