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Wednesday, July 18, 2007 12:00 AM

I hate buzzwords! It's not "carbon," it's "carbon dioxide"

And what about these stupid yellow ribbons everywhere? I hate that too!
By Cary Tennis

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  • Wednesday, July 18, 2007 08:41 AM

    Thank You!

    LW, thank you so much for giving all of us grammar/usage fanatics a chance to vent. It is such a rare opportunity to be able to indulge, even though it probably falls on deaf ears (my favorite is "hopefully").

    I was giving my teenage daughter a hard time about using a wrong word, and brought out the saying, "If you can't say what you mean, how can you mean what you say?" She just rolled her eyes & said, "Whatever." ;-)

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