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To: Doc Bones who wrote (90531)	4/6/2003 3:49:39 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Doc, thanks for the detail including: <Google - The ultimate test. I don't think "baited" is particularly American, nor do I believe that you are an annoyed pedant! ;-) > Oh oh. It seems that It is taking over sooner than I thought it would. It's decision is final [note correct apostrophe there]. The highest authority is no longer the Supreme Court or King George II but It. If people are worried about Homeland Security, wait until they have It on their trail. It seems very easy to be a fossil these days. < Because bated is archaic, the phrase bated breath is a linguistic fossil.> What about when the wind abates? How about unabated? These are good words which seem perfectly usable to me. With the continuing shriveling of language and reduction of communication to N-word Rap or Gangsta Rap or whatever with expletives and scatalogical references as punctuation and grunts as verbs we'll at least have a lot in common. The world will have a kind of lingua franca linguistic ground zero, starting at rutting and working up from there. I don't know how well it plays in China and India though. I'm not a pedant, but words are handy and apostrophe's are a lot of fun. Nevertheless literature should be illegal and before we kill all the lawyers, we should burn all Shakespeare's books [in the absence of being able to burn him - he probably suggested killing lawyers to distract attention from himself]. Both Shakespeare and lawyers are responsible for vast cruel and unusual punishment. At least lawyers for the most part only torture adults, like poor old Milosevic, stuck in a cage forever, innocent until proven guilty - giggle, and the best part is that he's a lawyer. Shakespeare is used to torment young people so that's especially vicious. The USA shouldn't kill Saddam if they find him. They should send him to join Milosevic. I know that's cruel of me, but imagine him caged like an old-time circus beast, tormented for the rest of his natural life, innocent until proven guilty, by a fleet of International Court of Justice lawyers. Did you notice that Serbian sidekick woman who was convicted recently pleaded guilty and went straight to prison for the rest of her life rather than be tormented like that? She probably didn't really do anything but the torment would have been intolerable. No wonder the USA is scared witless of having Americans subject to such due process and refuses to allow the court to consider Americans. That's only for subhumans. Not Americans. Mqurice