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To: Jack Clarke who wrote (680)	1/9/1998 5:24:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (3) of 4711

I must admit: in spoken usage, I won't hesitate to say "it's me". I guess it is a colloquialism whose sound of informality somehow diffuses a threat. A verbal posture of nonaggression, perhaps? Said out loud, the correct form has a somehow scolding tone to it, sorta like when your dad uses your full and middle name as a form of address. Lets you know you've done something; might as well face the music and find out what. But I ramble. We had an exercise we useta do in high-school English. Teacher offered up a vocabulary word, and each student was supposed to use it in a sentence. My great amusement was to subvert the process. E.g.: pilfer: The doc gave me a pilfer my headache. My magnum opus was echidna. The old Italian exclaimed incredulously: "You're echidna me!"

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