Re: (Slight) HUMOUR: Banned Words

Subject: Re: (Slight) HUMOUR: Banned Words
From: Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 12:23:16 -0500

Marguerite Krupp wrote:
>
> Several people have wondered about WHY people create mangled new words when
> we already have several good words that mean the same thing.
>
> What worries me is not so much the CREATION of these new words, but the fact
> that they rapidly gain currency,

I like currency, especially US$. The more the better. The more rapidly,
the better.
BTW Who makes the fast money, the words or the people?


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usually means adapting new machines to
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