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From: boren@randvax.UUCP (Pat Boren)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Decaying language skills
Message-ID: <170@randvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 27-Mar-86 12:14:45 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 27 12:14:45 1986
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> >Said the DJ on a nationwide syndicated radio program last weekend:
> >
> >	"... one of those voices with a uniqueness all its own".
> 
> And what is wrong with this sentence.  Are YOUR language skills decaying?!?
> "its" refers to "one"!  Go back to high school and learn something this time!!

Maybe YOU should go back to basic vocabulary and learn that the word
"uniqueness" implies "all its own."  Can something be unique "like others?"
Think before you jump on others next time, lest YOU be looking like the
fool.
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		Patricia Boren
		decvax!randvax!boren
		boren@rand-unix.arpa