Re:       Fwd: Comment for the ADS Webmaster

Peter A. McGraw pmcgraw at LINFIELD.EDU
Thu Jan 2 22:35:27 UTC 2003


I assume that Ron's questions are intended to be rhetorical, but I think
they would have merit as serious questions bearing on which coinages gain
wide acceptance and which ones don't.

Peter Mc.

--On Thursday, January 2, 2003 1:32 PM -0500 RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

> This is so funny! How do we know that a new word is a "manglement" and
> not a  clever new usage? Is anything that George Bush says a mangling
> just because  many people think he is an idiot?



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                               Peter A. McGraw
                   Linfield College   *   McMinnville, OR
                            pmcgraw at linfield.edu



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