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To: haqihana who wrote (100424)2/14/2005 5:54:35 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793670
 
Most people do not spend the time in the study of long, fancy, and seldom used, words that you obviously do. It seems that you are looking down your nose at common spoken folks.

I can't help it Haqi. That's the way I talk about ideas. It's not nice to make fun of how people talk. <g>

I have spent much of my life communicating complex ideas and that requires attention to words. You shouldn't read any more into it than that.

To the extent that I'm looking down on anything, it's the practice of knee-jerk dispute.




To: haqihana who wrote (100424)2/14/2005 7:00:56 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793670
 
Most people do not spend the time in the study of long, fancy, and seldom used, words that you obviously do.

Au contraire! (That's French for you're wrong.)

There has been a craze for learning new words since your grandpa was a pup, if not longer.



To: haqihana who wrote (100424)2/14/2005 10:56:13 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793670
 
Finally jogged my memory and remembered that Reader's Digest has published a monthly column, "It Pays To Increase Your Word Power", forever.