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Re: A Small Rant About Word Usage
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Tue, 30 Nov 2004 14:41:37 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Allan Bedford wrote:

I'm worried about your work environment if you're hearing "I call for the CEO's
ouster" often enough for it to bother you that much.  :)

I expect Orion was hearing it a LOT... up till about 2 November. Then I expect
the calls stopped. But they'll start up again come 2007...

(Orion is in the US Navy, his CEO is a fellow who formerly unsuccessfully ran a
major league baseball team that his daddy bought for him... perhaps you've heard
of him?)

But that's probably not the most worrisome part of his work environment.



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(...) Yeah well, I would have voted Libertarian if I'd though it would have made a difference but alas the Libertarian Party has no real chance of winning elections and they have right shifted too much I my opinion. I'm realy caught in a quadery as (...) (20 years ago, 1-Dec-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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(...) Perhaps it's the word order that's causing you grief. What if you said, "I call for the ouster of the CEO." No, that's the same, isn't it? Eclectic English and its scrambled semantics! :) Regardless, the definition does seem to be accurate, (...) (20 years ago, 30-Nov-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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