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From: oleg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Oleg Kiselev)
Newsgroups: talk.origins,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Platygaeanism (Was Re: someone's sexual preference for sheep.)
Message-ID: <2805@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 8 Mar 88 09:19:07 GMT
References: <862@elmgate.UUCP> <2970001@hpclskh.HP.COM> <9474@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: oleg@gryphon.CTS.COM (Oleg Kiselev)
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In article <9474@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> troly@MATH.UCLA.EDU (Bret Jolly) writes:
> Take a trip to Australia. See if you fall off. No fair saying that "down"
>means "toward the center of the Earth"; "down" already has a meaning. You
>cannot just redefine it, anymore than I can redefine "up" to mean "north"
>or "green" to mean "heavy". 

OK, this has gone on long enough, Bret.  I have enjoyed your little game so
far, but now you are getting boring and tiresome.  If you do not stop repeating
this nonsense about '"down" already has a meaning' I swear to the NET I will
personally flood your mailbox with megabytes of old net.jokes archives.  
I am not kidding.  ;^)

Now, be a good boy, Bret, and find a different hobby horse to trample round
earthers with.  "Common sense", "grammar" and "usage" arguements are just 
fluff, and we all know it.
-- 

Oleg Kiselev	{frodo|bilbo|lcc}.oleg@seas.ucla.edu	...!ihnp4!lcc!oleg
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