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To: Rambi who wrote (788)	1/20/1998 7:50:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

>Alex poopoos my AHD< If that's bait, I'm half into the boat already! It would be correct to say that I poohpooh your AHD. I'm to polite to say what I poopoo, at least on this thread. (Try Rambi.) >it is by now so common that it cannot be considered an error. < It's this sort of weak-willed pandering which raises my wrath at the AHD. Language is not a plaything of the masses. It is the proper privilege and implement of the Elite. Just 'acuzza everyone is saying something does not make it right! Rant Factor Four, Mr. Sulu

To: Rambi who wrote (788)	1/20/1998 8:22:00 PM
From: Thom A. Shulok	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4710

Okay, enough lurking, time to stick my head in the piranha bucket... As a student of predictive linguistics, I think the short i is more economical from the verbo-musculative perspective. Try saying the -liv fragment both ways: long i and short i. The long i involves a glottal (the vibration deep in your throat) that requires more effort and may demonstrate slightly more barbaric undertones. The short i simply requires far less effort to execute. Given that most people are like electrons (path of least resistance) and really hate to project the appearance of barbarism in these enlightened times, it might be reasonable to expect the long i version to disappear entirely, except among isolated groups of overachieving barbaric types. Thom