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I've never really thought of Henry Tudor as a hillbilly, but ...
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Why use something at all if it does not make sense? Obviously acronym letters are intended to represent words, so they should replace them in use, including speech. Repeating what is already said is simply babbling. It can only either insult the listener by implying ignorance on his part or make the speaker appear inept. Once a man working in an automotive shop had the gall to say “VIN number” to me and expected to sound competent! As if it was going to be confused with wine? We have to hope anyone of such limited capacity will never pick up a loaded firearm. In a magazine article, the writer actually bothered to define ABS in the introduction but then went on to put “ABS system” IN PRINT at least three times! This is no more competent than typing “SCUBA apparatus” in a diving magazine. What is so wrong with this is that in a world where so many cannot be bothered with what anything means, these things proliferate like a bacteria colony. This constant expansion of lunacy by the ‘monkey-hear, monkey say’ principle degrades the overall intelligence of entire populations. It is as if a movie entitled ‘Invasion of the Brain Snatchers’ was happening in real life. 
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Concerned you might have missed this post, I'm repeating it: So, do you, Aramis?
I did catch it but the answer must have been lost somehow. The answer is usually, with obvious exceptions. Have even found archaic works such as Dafoe and (original of) Chaucer to be interesting, as well as some foreign languages even to include Kiswaihili.
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language he enjoys; it's just latter-day English he can't abide. 
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babbling (05/05/06 11:51 AM)
had the gall to say (05/05/06 11:51 AM)
like a bacteria colony (05/05/06 11:51 AM)
expansion of lunacy (05/05/06 11:51 AM)
monkey-hear, monkey say principle (05/05/06 11:51 AM)
Yup, I'm stickin' with my morning theory.
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then went on to put “ABS system” IN PRINT at least three times!
Why did you feel the need to use the plural form of the noun when the plural is adequately indicated by the fact that you have used the number three to modify it? Do you think we need it to understand that it was used more than one time?
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Who is this Aramis from Gee Yaw Juh who's using a Kiwi as an avatar? Pick on your own state's bird - roadkill turkey, is it?
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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Who is this Aramis from Gee Yaw Juh who's using a Kiwi as an avatar? Pick on your own state's bird - roadkill turkey, is it?
I had the same sort of reaction when I found someone else using Marvin. feh! (<--lingering anger)
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