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Re: To change the tune...
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Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:57:55 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Laswell wrote:

   The Iraqi situation is a moot point (note the correct usage of the word “moot”, which I don’t think I’ve seen before on LUGNET) right now.

I’m not sure which parts of LUGNET you’ve been reading, but a number of us are passingly familiar with the correct usage of moot. Here is part of one of many discussions about that very word (at least, a discussion of one of its definitions, though perhaps not the one you’re declaring “correct”).

Dave!



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(...) Agreed. (URL) HERE> is another, acknowledging your very concern;-) JOHN (21 years ago, 18-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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(...) How long do you think it would have taken Hussein & Sons to kill that many if they'd been left in power? Anyways, the US was directly responsible for putting Saddam in charge of Iraq those many years ago. Quite frankly, it worries me that the (...) (21 years ago, 12-Feb-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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