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To: Jack Clarke who wrote (1846)	2/12/1999 6:06:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) of 4711

Being well outside the mainstream of US English, I occasionally encounter constructions that seem very strange to me, but perfectly ordinary to many others. Saw two in the last few days. The narrator of a Discovery Channel episode that my son was watching referred to an explorer becoming "disorientated". Is this normal? When did we stick the extra syllable on "to orient". An SI post described someone as being "a difficult person to gift". I couldn't figure out what the hell was being said; finally discerned that the person in question was difficult to select gifts for. Is this the way we talk now? Steve

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