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From: wix@bergil.DEC (Jack Wickwire)
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Subject: Unusual Error Messages
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Date: Mon, 16-Jul-84 15:35:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 16 15:35:00 1984
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From:	WIX          "Jack Wickwire"   11-JUL-1984 11:52
To:	AMBER::EIRIKUR
Subj:	Apologies

Eirikur,

	 I just noticed that I had not replied to your message asking for
Sarah and Floyd's address. Maybe that should be `Sarah's and Floyd's address.'
Probably what the self-styled arbitrators of grammarical iconoclasm would
like me to say `the address of Sarah and Floyd' in that horribly stilted style
that is from the same family as not leaving a preposition at your sentance
the end of. I mean that is the way the language is spoken. This lock it in
adamant stuff is part of that whole mess that started with writing and
dictionaries. Didn't our generation show twenty years ago that we could
throw off the bonds of fashion and social bondage and stand free shoulder
to shoulder with our natural fiber eating brethren wearing natural colors
like green and brown and face down the despots of convention speaking as we
wanted to speak, washing when we wanted to wash, FREE to follow our whims,
ready with peaceful demonstrations to smash the Amerikan Government with
their Thought Police and their foul computers tha...

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