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From: jc@cdx39.UUCP (John Chambers)
Newsgroups: soc.misc
Subject: Re: Re: Down with engineerlish!
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Date: Mon, 29-Sep-86 10:08:16 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 29 10:08:16 1986
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> >But what's wrong with using the correct term - function?  This industry has
> >taken the English language and twisted it for it's own purposes.  
> 
>     Are you trying to say that the English language is some how a
>  complete language, meaning that all the words in the English language
>  that can be defined have been? 
> >
> >I don't know, I expect people who possess a college degree(even in 
> >engineering:-) to understand English.
> >
> 
>  It seems they don't teach English anymore. It went out of fashion
>  when the "New Math" came in. 

Oh, boy, another language-flaming session!  Let's get it going fast;
hopefully it'll be as much fun as the last 27 of them!

[Hey, did he say "hopefully"?  Let's get 'im fer thet!]

Probably the definitive statement on the use [usage/utilization] of
English was in the musical My Fair Lady:

	Why, in America, they haven't spoken it [English] in years.

-- 
	John M Chambers 
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