Re: OT: In the 'ignorance on parade' file

On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, claudio wrote:

> people speak in flowery phrases they overtook, because they sound
> nice, but most of them are as dumb and useless as flowers he-he.
> so it is with the meme's "language is growing" "growth is natural"
> "natural is good for you".
> language is growing, and its growing more wry + twisted +
> platidousness each day, it growth uglier
> the more it is struggled with mass media's flood and integration of foreign
> words, and increase of ambiguity on top of formerly exact terms.
What a profoundly stinking heap of tripish rubbish you write.

Integration of foreign words makes language uglier?  Ambiguity is a bad
thing?

Consider yourself flammed; I haven't the time to do it properly.

--Pat

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