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From: wyatt@cfa.UUCP (Bill Wyatt)
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Subject: Re: Sentences easily misunderstood when heard
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Date: Thu, 14-Nov-85 01:00:41 EST
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OK - my 2 cents:

In college, I proofread a roommate's paper and marked out the phrase
"for all intensive purposes". He *insisted* that this was correct, and
argued about "intenseness" as a modifier for a purpose, etc. He left it
that way.

I (much later) heard from a second roomie that he had been sworn to secrecy
that the TA had, naturally, corrected it to "for all intents and purposes".
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