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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 14:56:41 MET
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- From: Grzegorz Albinowski <caius@II.UJ.EDU.PL>
- Subject: common usage : left-right
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- -other Andy:
- >How about "common usage?"
- >
- >In the US it is commonly held that Nazism is a right-wing sort
- >of belief; then again so is extreme conservatism, some brands
- >of libertarianism, etc. There is wide acceptance of the idea
- >that there is a significant difference between the ideologies
- >of these different right wing philosophies.
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- Ok, I didn't know about the "common usage" in the US.
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- I have a question (it is very important to me, you discussed the A/AN before
- historian so maybe you will answer my linguistic problem);
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- My Longman Top Pocket English Dictionary says:
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- RIGHT (p.441)
- 4 political parties that favour less change and less state control
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- LEFT (p.290)
- 2 political parties that favour more change and more state control
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- How about "common usage?"
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- Do I have to throw away my dictionary?
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- Do I have to throw away a copy of 288 lines Valentine message?
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- Caius.
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