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From: bifrost@reed.UUCP (Alan Schmidt)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Poor English (here too)
Message-ID: <1193@reed.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 28-Mar-85 16:16:33 EST
Article-I.D.: reed.1193
Posted: Thu Mar 28 16:16:33 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 31-Mar-85 02:49:09 EST
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Reply-To: bifrost@reed.UUCP (Alan Schmidt)
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
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Summary: 

> >Don't worry about "orientate" -- the biggest problem is the word
> >"initialize" which every computer person really and truly believes
> >is a genuine word!
> 
> It's in my Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary.  (Oh... Maybe I have
> an "unreal" dictionary...)

	Probably (:-)).  Dictionarys have been turning on me lately.
They've just recently turned 'a lot' into one word.  Who am I to stand
in the way of progress?  One thing still bothers me:  What should I 
write when I try to buy real estate?

Heimdal (Alan Schmidt)
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