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#134142 10/17/2004 10:44 AM
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Just an expression I heard the other day that made me smile... It would have probably made many here cringe, but I pass it on to you as an example of either an isolated error or an expression that's developing among the youth.


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Concise, precise and functional but to be accurate it should have been "Just the exacts, ma'am, just the exacts."


#134144 10/18/2004 10:43 PM
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well, it hasn't made it up here to my middle school. yet.

and thanks Joe Friday...



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#134145 10/19/2004 10:35 AM
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an example of either an isolated error or an expression that's developing

Or another case of an adjective acting as a noun, something that has been with us since the beginning.


#134146 10/19/2004 11:21 AM
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from the adj. "proper."



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