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From: dimitrov@csd2.UUCP (Isaac Dimitrovsky)
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Subject: Give me a break!
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Date: Thu, 21-Nov-85 20:06:00 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 21 20:06:00 1985
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If there's one thing I can't stand it's the hyperinflation of language.
Words that used to mean something are debased to valueless scraps of
paper it's not even worth papering your walls with. I hate it when
a modest technical advance like expert systems is hailed as the most
revolutionary advance in software since the invention of the semicolon.
I hate it when a mildly entertaining movie is called a 'riveting ...
blockbuster'. I hate it when the word genocide is used to describe
the fate of the Palestinians in the West Bank. And I hate it when the
words love and friend are thrown around like used Kleenex. As I read in
a comic strip somewhere, 'Friend? I'll tell you what it is a friend.
When you're locked in with someone alone in a room with no food for
a week, then you'll know what is a friend'. Now I don't go that far,
but this constant use of 'love' recently has begun to make my molars
ache. Love me? Sure, I love you. In fact, I love to love you. Etc.
Come on folks, think for a minute. If you describe your feeling
toward a stream of electrons as love, what are you going to use
when you find someone you want to spend your life with?
love love love? love ** omega? All this reminds me of that old poem:

Love, I have heard, is a wonderful word;
Hate, I have heard, is not.
Love, I am told, is more precious than gold;
Love, I have read, is hot.

But hate to me is the verb that's superb
and love but a drug on the mart.
Any kiddie in school can love like a fool
but hating, my boy, is an art.

Ogden Nash (apologies if i remembered it wrong)

Isaac Dimitrovsky
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