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From: judith@proper.UUCP (Judith Abrahms)
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Subject: Re: Resurrecting Dead Metaphors
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Date: Sun, 25-Aug-85 05:44:44 EDT
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In article <> barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold) writes:
>"It is a virgin field pregnant with possibilities."  

Love it!

>For some time I've been bothered about the proper way to end a rhetorical
>question.  A question mark somehow seems inappropriate.  

I end mine with "?!".  (I believe someone tried to put a combination of "?" and
"!" into the language a few years ago... it looked as if they were overprinted,
sharing the same dot at the base.  Needless to say it didn't catch on.)
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Judith Abrahms                     "The sames should stay with the sames, and
{ucbvax,ihnp4}!dual!proper!judith   the differents should stay with the
                                    differents."         -- A. Bunker
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