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To: C. Edmund Wright

We’ll have to disagree on that one. The general acceptance and proliferation of that style brings us closer to realizing the plot line of Idiocracy, IMO.


30 posted on 01/04/2015 8:04:49 AM PST by edpc (Wilby 2016)
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To: edpc

Silly. It’s been the stock in trade for all artists and writers for centuries. Early Americans adopted and incorpted slang-—not to mention Indian, Spanish, and French words-—all the time. Virtually all words ending in the English “re” we’re “slang-ized” into American “er”.


35 posted on 01/04/2015 8:15:16 AM PST by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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To: edpc

It is sports. It is supposed to be fun. And entertaining. The King’s English is not necessary.


40 posted on 01/04/2015 8:32:14 AM PST by bigdaddy45
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