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To: no dems

Like flammable and inflammable.


404 posted on 05/29/2007 2:32:20 PM PDT by Rte66
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To: Rte66
A serious moment in cultural history occurred a few years ago, marking a significant takeover of public rhetoric by proles. I’m referring to gasoline trucks changing the warning word on the rear from INFLAMMABLE to FLAMMABLE. Widespread public education had at last produced a population which no longer recognized -in as an intensifier. The proles for whom the sign FLAMMABLE was devised will be impelled when they hear that something (like a book or a work of art) is invaluable to toss it into the trash immediately.

— Paul Fussell, Class, 1983.


436 posted on 05/29/2007 4:12:03 PM PDT by dighton
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