Re: lost linguistic battles (was: Re: developing countries)

From: JAY DUGGER (duggerj1@charter.net)
Date: Sun Jun 22 2003 - 08:10:23 MDT

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    On Sat, 21 Jun 2003 11:36:08 +1000
      Damien Broderick <damienb@unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
    >At 02:30 PM 6/20/03 +0100, Steve D wrote:
    >
    >>Too bad Bill, looks like another battle has been lost. I
    >>fear I'll have to
    >>give up insisting that "aggravate" does not mean
    >>"irritate/annoy" as well.
    >>However I am still fighting the good fight against the
    >>confusing of "rebutt"
    >>with "refute" (a very important distinction) and (vainly
    >>I fear) of "flout"
    >>with "flaunt".
    >

    Let me encourage you then. I slowly win at work the battle
    to teach people the difference between "problem" and
    "issue". I had to lose the fight for "effect" vs. "impact"
    to do it.



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