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From: diag@micomvax.UUCP (Hardware Diagnostics Group)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Is English decaying rapidly?
Message-ID: <517@micomvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Oct-85 19:10:44 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 11 19:10:44 1985
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Summary: 

The language isn't decaying; rather, civilization is decaying in the sense
that overuse of the language is reflecting the personal gaps between
people and their self-centered interests.  There are countless examples
in addition to the one you give of 'saying in ten words what can be
said in two'; perhaps this is a manifestation of the angst of the
human condition, of the need to say something when there's nothing
to be said. I also find this trend annoying, yet I often find
myself part of it.  Perhaps t'was always thus!  Listen to a
politician talk to newsmen.  A recent NET quote says it best:

"Hypocrisy is the vaseline of social intercourse"

			Vlad the Re-mailer

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