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List:       wikien-l
Subject:    Re: [WikiEN-l] "refactoring" signatures
From:       "Steve Bennett" <stevagewp () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-06-13 8:28:17
Message-ID: b8ceeef70606130128t1e7a1cd7xb2a73358a86ea014 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 6/13/06, Daniel R. Tobias <dan@tobias.name> wrote:
> It (British/Commonwealth English) tends, in my (probably biased)
> experience, to be used by people trying to put on airs and sound
> pretentiously superior, like real estate developers naming a
> development "Harbour Centre" when it's nowhere near a harbo(u)r nor
> particularly close to the center/re of anything important, or fashion
> magazines ("Glamour") that desperately want to show how elegant they
> believe themselves to be, or snooty academics who would rather be
> involved with an "encyclopaedia" than a commoner's "encyclopedia".
>
> I find it especially bothersome to encounter the word "paedophile",
> since I hardly think pedophiles deserve to be dignified with a
> pretentiously dressed-up spelling.

Lol. That has to be a joke, yeah?

Steve
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