No "damage"?

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
> "viral" for "viral video"

It's possible that I would have tripped over that one, too, absent a
mention of YouTube. OTOH, something like "John Doe, MD, (was (the))
attending" or "We ate Indian" would be transparent.

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