A silly digression on nits and how to pick them.

hammstu at sbcglobal.net · 14 Aug 2008, 15:04 · from 2008-August.txt.gz

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From: hammstu at sbcglobal.net (hammstu at sbcglobal.net)
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:04:59 +0000
Subject: (urth) A silly digression on nits and how to pick them.
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Excellent!!
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But would a gay inhumu be an inhomo?

I am ashamed.



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> Kieran Mullen wrote:
>> Mr. Millman may have been a bit exasperated in his corrections,
>> but they were short and to the point.  I learned something from them.
>> We should aspire to use these unfamiliar words correctly.
>>
> As the corrected poster, I would like to say that I didn't mind too
> much. I would rather have had feedback on the substance of my post, but
> it was an interesting response anyway and it showed me that someone was
> reading and paying attention. I do attempt to use words correctly and
> the gender-neutral use of "inhumi" was a bit of a grammatical stretch.
>
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