"When you _victim-blame_..."

Benjamin Barrett gogaku at IX.NETCOM.COM
Thu Jul 31 20:32:06 UTC 2014


FWIW, I see a lot of these expressions in technical writing. I recently tried to change "pattern-form" to "form into a pattern" and was corrected. BB

On Jul 31, 2014, at 1:23 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> My impression is that this kind of structure has definitely moved away
> from, IMO, a joke and may be headed to "unremarkable, perhaps even to
> "ordinary." Or the novelty may wear off too quickly and it'll die out.

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