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#147221 09/09/05 01:07 PM
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Thanks for the link, weissbier. I'm going to go off and explore the guy's website:

http://members.aol.com/RivieraRatt/redund.html


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I take exception to his BTK killer. The K does not stand for killer so if you just say BTK you've missed an important aspect and if you say BTKer people are going to look at you all funny like and nobody's going to pay any attention to anything else you say. As for the emergency EPIRB rescue beacon, I'll grant him the emergency but the R is for Radio, not Rescue. If you say EPIR rescue B you've chopped the idea of an acronym all to behoozis and if you say EPIRB rescue you've totally compromised any hope of communicating. Fighting redundancy is like fighting the whole idea of communication. Let it be and spend your efforts on a fight worth fighting.


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> Fighting redundancy is like fighting the whole idea of communication. Let it be and spend your efforts on a fight worth fighting.


Amen. Prescriptivism delenda est!


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>>Delenda est<<

What does that mean, pray tell -- and amen twice: well done again, Fald.


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Delenda est

Max is playing off Cato's old carch phrase Carthago delenda est, "Carthage must be destroyed." In doing so, he slips in a certain amount of irony (or whatever you want to call it). See:

http://myths.allinfoabout.com/nutshell2.html


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Wow. Thanks.


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Odd--I don't remember hearing that in The Pink Panther Strikes Again.


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Prescriptivism delenda est!

A minor nit, prescriptivism would be masculine in Latin, prescriptivismus, so the gerundive should be delendus. But, yes, I agree.



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>>...I agree<<

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>A minor nit, prescriptivism would be masculine in Latin, prescriptivismus, so the gerundive should be delendus. But, yes, I agree.


Since I model myself on Billy S, in knowing little Latin and even less Greek, I was certain that I would get it wrong. But that enriched the point, in a pythonesque kind of way, na?


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