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SI Grammar and Spelling Lab

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3136	I'm not sure Wodehouse qualifies: satire is, after all, far from trivial.	Achilles	-	7/8/1999
3135	<i>A great prose style in the service of a trivial topic becomes trivial.	Dayuhan	-	7/8/1999
3134	Might I be so bold as to suggest that in terms of the language and its rhythms	Achilles	-	7/8/1999
3133	<i>And what do you think constitutes the essence of a truly great pr	The Philosopher	-	7/8/1999
3132	Re: Writing as an "ethical act" I have run across what struck me as	jbe	-	7/8/1999
3131	For the lawyers among us: some courtroom bloopers. The following gems were cu	jbe	-	7/7/1999
3130	Heard on NPR this morning: "the lesser of four evils". I suggest that	Jacques Chitte	-	7/6/1999
3129	The print dictionaries I have at home are too old to have the word "sexism	jbe	-	7/6/1999
3128	Thanks. Just for interests sake, relative to our discussion on Feelings, I loo	The Philosopher	-	7/6/1999
3127	TO THREAD: Another excellent On-line resource: "A Web of On-Line Diction	jbe	-	7/5/1999
3126	(You haven't lived until you've experienced full-contact rummy	Jacques Chitte	-	7/5/1999
3125	oh I am SUCH toast.	Jacques Chitte	-	7/5/1999
3124	Good morning, Herc. I'd heard "pimply-faced pissants' before and	Edwarda	-	7/5/1999
3123	Chris, I am NOT going to pick you up on a typo in you posting; it is there, how	Edwarda	-	7/5/1999
3122	If you liked "lintheads" then you would have loved the term "pim	Herc	-	7/5/1999
3121	Oh, Herc, I love the term "lintheads"! Thank you for adding to my ow	Edwarda	-	7/5/1999
3120	Amen, Christopher. TV, as a culprit, had not occurred to me, because I never e	jbe	-	7/5/1999
3119	Agree wholeheartedly! Very nicely put, Chris!	B.C.	-	7/4/1999
3118	Progressive education certainly plays its part. But the real culprit, sorry to	The Philosopher	-	7/4/1999
3117	No, my parents were not anarchists, although they would qualify as "proges	jbe	-	7/4/1999
3116	Your parents weren't, by any chance, anarchists? I was unaware of this mov	Herc	-	7/4/1999
3115	Personally, I rather doubt that affirmative action has had much, if anything, t	jbe	-	7/4/1999
3114	It is sad that so many SI contributors are part of the generation X/affirmative	Herc	-	7/4/1999
3113	Agreed! <gg>	jbe	-	7/3/1999
3112	My position is going to be this: If it entertains me to do so, or the person wh	E	-	7/3/1999

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