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To: Yamakita who wrote (1455)8/27/1998 1:19:00 AM
From: Dayuhan  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 4711
 
If a humble subject may request a ruling from the Czar....

What is the status of the recently common verb "to be in denial"? To me it's the semantic equivalent of fingernails dragging across a blackboard, and I have never used it, but I haven't come up with a compact and clearly superior substitute.

Is psychobabble cause for exile to the salt mines?

Steve