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nonserviam42

Published Letters: 4     Editor's Choice: 1

  • I haven't checked to see if this was said before, but...

    [Read the article: A tragic legacy]
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    Magna Carta doesn't take an article. Latin doesn't have them, so we don't refer to "the Magna Carta," just "Magna Carta."

  • Using Dictionary.com? Really?

    [Read the article: In defending Gonzales, Justice officials look to the dictionary]
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    The OED defines abuse as:

    -Wrong or improper use, misuse, misapplication, perversion.

    -A bad or improper usage (i.e. a use which has become chronic), a corrupt practice.

    -Injurious speech, reviling, execration; abusive language.

    -Improper use of words (Chiefly rhet.)

    or as a synonym for violation. Nowhere in the entire entry does the dictionary even mention intention. Abuse comes from the Latin word to either use up, or mis-use. Again, no mention of intention. It's pervertedly amusing how abuse can refer to catachresis, when that's the precise tool the Bush administration has used to keep its stranglehold on absolute power.

  • No sense of humor because of birht? Ha!

    [Read the article: The women of Shouts and Murmurs]
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    I think women have to have some inherent sense of humor in order to undergo birth. I mean, women have their respective most-private-areas spread open for some 24 year-old acne-scarred intern to observe for eight hours, while passing a bowling ball through the straw that is the birth canal and most likely shitting themselves at least twice (they never tell them they're going to). How can women not have a sense of humor about such an experience?

  • Why aren't they studying the *gasp* potentiality that women have superior endurance

    [Read the article: Older women leave young'uns in the dust]
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    Q. v. Astrid Benohr, whose quintuple-&-deca-ironman world records are two and five hours faster than the men's.