semantic drif t: "scream"

[Baker, John]

        Without otherwise attempting to take a position in this learned
discussion, I would just point out that if this is to be the standard,
it is a standard that much advertising copy will fail to meet.


John Baker


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Subject: Re: semantic drif t: "scream"

I would mark Dell's "scream" as "poor diction" on a freshman theme and
frown deeply while doing so.

  JL

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