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From: gjk@talcott.UUCP (Greg Kuperberg)
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Subject: Re: Re: Poor English (here too)
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Date: Fri, 15-Mar-85 21:22:51 EST
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> I don't understand the fuss.  What's the problem?  We have a new
> technology, namely computer science.  Since this technology didn't exist
> previously, there are bound to be a number of things one will want to be
> able to express in English that there was no need to express before.
> How do you think any language develops?  People invent new words when
> they need them, or they borrow them from another language, or whatever.
...
> 	Marie desJardins

Unfortunately, most CS-types are careless about their English.  And the
result?  Many nouns become verbs and vice versa, like "interface",
something which previously only happened to curse words.  In general the
grammar deteriorates.
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			Greg Kuperberg
		     harvard!talcott!gjk

"No Marxist can deny that the interests of socialism are higher than the
interests of the right of nations to self-determination." -Lenin, 1918