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From: ry@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (ryerson.schwark)
Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
Organization: UNIX System Laboratories, Summit, NJ
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:41:27 GMT

In article <BzMn4B.yMI@austin.ibm.com> alan@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (Alan R. Weiss) writes:
>In article <1992Dec21.182802.21419@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> ry@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (ryerson.schwark) writes:
>>In article <BzMCGn.2HsA@austin.ibm.com> alan@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (Alan R. Weiss) writes:
>>>
>>>Any philosophy that excludes nearly half the human race is,
>>>by my definition, untenable.  
>>
>>Why do you think empowering women excludes men?  
>
>Sigh.  I didn't say it, Melinda and Mara did.  PLEASE only attribute
>to me what I say.  Its quite enough having to defend THAT, thank you!
>

No actually, they didn't.  Mara talked about feminism empowering
women, you then made the statement above.  I still don't see what's
exclusionary about it.

As for the rest, I've giving it one.

Ry 
ry@usl.com
Newsgroups: soc.bi,soc.motss
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 01:42:00 EST
From: Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Throwing Christians to the Bunnies (was: Understanding)

Vidarr's Shoe, Gus, you did rattle on a bit...

A White-light-and-bunnies pagan is one who can't get a negative
prognosis using runes for divination.  (A practice which comes
from a culture in which the fertility dieties are warlike and
mean _probably_ has a few scary fates in the divination system
somewhere.. :)

I think what you're getting at is the myth of The One Truth; I've
been saying less horrid things about it since realizing that I'm
a one truthie about there not being one, but it still messes up
large aspects of reality.

What Fangorn told Merry and Pippin also has some relevance - 'Side?
I am not altogether on anyone's side, because no one is entirely
on mine'.  This goes for the great majority of folks; fer'instance,
I'm not a feminist, but I'm not opposed to the aims of some of those
who call themselves feminists, nor am I existing in some state where
the set of concepts I've incorporated into my world view is the
set that does not include any feminist concepts.

Hope you get *some* family Christmas...

Graydon
From: exchangez@gn.apc.org (Zina Kaye)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: TV..The drug of a nation
Date: 3 Jan 93 00:58:00 GMT
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Nf-From: gn.UUCP!exchangez    Jan  3 00:58:00 1993


Hello from another first poster

I've just emerged, wrinkled but happy, from several hours of reading soc.bi
postings in the bath. My my *steps back in amazement* there's a lot
going on. Pleasing to me because I have just returned from Sydney, where the
LGBO community is huge,prominent, dedicated, strong, supportive and damn 
sexy.

Totally unlike London, where I currently find myself.

*Cut to bedsit, 00.00H Jan 1*  ........Celebrating with friends, we
switch on television to solve non-watch-owning problems. ITV (one
of 4 national channels) starts a series of continuous clips showing
couples kissing in the New Year. Not one of those couples is m-m,
f-f. 
*Cut to Cambridge Circus, London, 13.00H Jan 2*.... Whilst awaiting
a long lost buddy, I count twenties of prominently gay couples passing
by.

I haven't been here long enough to comment on the state of British 
television, but my NY's glimpse didn't encourage me, since if the same
was broadcast in Australia, at least one gay couple would have been
included.

But of course, I really wish to say that it's good to find you all 
here in the comfy confines of this c...oo..hang on.. where's my dic..
crunchyy conference. *Cut to me, smiling mystically smiling at my
knees in bath* especially the bifolkals.

Wishing you the spunkiest of 93's...
};->

Zina. 
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From: arodgers@dcs.qmw.ac.uk (Angus H Rodgers)
Newsgroups: soc.bi,soc.motss
Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
Date: 22 Dec 92 12:52:01 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London

In <1992Dec21.221517.6858@panix.com> mara@panix.com (Mara Chibnik) writes:

>rsr@soda.berkeley.edu (Roy S. Rapoport) writes:

> >I think I agree with what I think Mara is trying to say, though I would put
> >it thus:

   [...]

>This isn't anything at all like what I said.  I think I said what I
>was trying to say, but thanks so much for all your kind help.

Oh damn, that's what I thought you were saying as well. Put me down
as congenitally clueless. :-(
--
Gus Rodgers,  Dept. of Computer Science, |  [Profound thought for 1993]
Queen Mary & Westfield College, Mile End |     "Philishave is about
Road, London, England.   +44 71 975 5241 |      personal choice" 
E-mail (JANET):   arodgers@dcs.qmw.ac.uk |             -- TV advert
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From: iwatters@cix.compulink.co.uk (Ian Watters)
Subject: Re: Het males & bi-fems                 
Cc: iwatters@cix.compulink.co.uk
Reply-To: iwatters@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 23:43:00 +0000

> in the new nancy friday book 'women on top' that watching 2 men and
>perhaps joining them is a new idea in women's fantasies, not present
>in ms. friday's previous collections and analysis of women's sexual
>fantasies, 'my secret garden' and 'forbidden flowers'

Yes, Women on Top is a good book, but memory tells me it is mentioned in
Forbidden Flowers.  One fantasy includes it and Nancy Friday says she's
surprised it didn't come up more often...

//\/\/  iwatters@cix.compulink.co.uk

>>>MATRIX version  1.21e
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From: bp@cs.brown.edu (Boris Putanec)
Subject: Re: Selective Memory?
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Brown University
	<BzL1F1.Bqv@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <BzL7x2.Ho2@demon.co.uk>
	<29778@castle.ed.ac.uk> <29779@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:50:23 GMT

In article <29779@castle.ed.ac.uk> angi@castle.ed.ac.uk (Angi Lamb) writes:

  sara@festival.ed.ac.uk (Swamp Thing) writes:

  |gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:

  |>dbshapco@napier.uwaterloo.ca (Brad Shapcott) writes:
  |>:evidence, and to the flip ego posturing dominating many posts.  Well,
  |>:the first thing I would like to know is, am I the only one that feels this?

  |>No.

  |And neither is he.

  Ditto

Seconded.

boris
Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: jenk@microsoft.com (Jen Kilmer)
Subject: Re: Het males & bi-femmes
Date: 30 Dec 92 06:52:51 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <85854@ut-emx.uucp> robear@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Jay Michael) writes:
>
>Bi-related material:
>	I've noticed in the heterosexual male world an occasional fascination 
>with the bisexual woman 

OCCASIONAL???

Sorry...a year ago I wrote a rather vanilla sexual encounter on a dare,
and eventually ended up posting it in rec.arts.erotica and alt.sex.stories.
A month ago I was frustrated with work and decided to do something totally
frivolous & recreational & creative - so I wrote another vanilla sexual
encounter. As a writing exercise I tried to improve my character development
& dialogue...and to bring it closer to the level of what's normally on 
alt.sex.stories, I made it an encounter between two women.

I've recieved PHONE CALLS about this story. One from a guy who seemed 
nice (Ed in Chicago, who called in the morning and woke me up) and a
few rather obscene calls late at night from men talking about the 
story. Most of the email I've received is from men - and most of it
rather complimentary. Still...why the interest?

I think that part of why the idea of bisexual women in particular is
enticing to men is  the idea that "ah, they're having sex, hmm, I'll jump 
in".  Most straight men seem to have an easier time accepting bisexual
or lesbian women than bisexual or gay men - and I think it's not just 
that straight men might be "concerned" about being "hit on" [everyone
gets hit on, women usually - learn some social skills, brother]. I
think it's because oral sex & hand/vaginal contact is more "acceptable"
to anal sex.

-jen
From: cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Ciaran McHale)
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: Okay...okay...here is an official demuffin...
Date: 1 Jan 93 22:00:37 GMT
Organization: DSG, Dept. of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin

I'm not "fully" back yet from Xmas holidays and its just pure chance
that I saw this posting.

In <1992Dec31.172755.24815@news.cs.brandeis.edu>
shogan@binah.cc.brandeis.edu (Empress Sue) writes:
>[defmuffining posting]

What a great start to the new year for me. It's great to see you here
Sue. Welcome and hugs.


Ciaran.
-- 
---- Ciaran McHale (cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie)
\bi/ Department of Computer Science, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland.
 \/  Telephone: +353-1-7021539 FAX: +353-1-6772204
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From: tal@plts.uucp (Tom Limoncelli)
Newsgroups: soc.bi,soc.motss
Subject: Re: My 5-year HS Reunion... the results!
Date: 30 Dec 1992 20:45:36 -0500
Organization: P.L.T.S., North Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: plts.uucp

In <1992Dec30.022504.18017@oracle.us.oracle.com> dgilly@us.oracle.com (Daniel Gilly) writes:

>> All the "proud crowd" (the nickname for the popular clique) was
>> there.  Some of them were really confused by my button.  Finally
>> someone (Amy) came up to me and said, "Doug and those guys want to
>> know what your button means and I told them that they need to grow
>> up." She then came out to me :-) and we had a grand old time
>> talking about things.

>I'm curious about the reputation of this "proud crowd."  Were they
>self-centered jerks, putting down anyone who wasn't "in"?  Or were they

They were the rich-n-popular people.  Rich-n-popular is one word
because if you are rich you are popular and if you are popular
you are rich.  Right?  (Ah, the logic of HS).

>popular because they were friendly to everybody?  I guess I'd like to
>know how they treated you back when you were in school, and whether
>you're saying here that their attitude hadn't changed a bit.

They never treated me great.  I was this nerdy little guy.  The
situation was typical.  They all had lots of (unsafe) sex but hid it
due to shame.  Word got out that I had a healthy sex life (and wasn't
ashamed about it) and they berated me and spread some amazing rumors.
Go figure.

>At my *five* year reunion, I found that 50% of the jerks had matured but
>50% were still jerks.  At my ten year, more (but still not all) 
>of the jerks had mellowed.

>> I got to talk with Amanda Zwacky,

>Really!?  She sort of sounds like a past (or past-perfect ?) 
>relative of Arnold Zwicky's ?  :-)

I told her that.  It seems that there are lots of
[SZ]w[aeiou]*ck{ie|y}'s out there.

>Several months ago, however, I found myself coming out to 
>prospective employers during job interviews.  Initially I was
>nervous, but as I got more interviews under my belt, I had the
>pleasure of observing matter-of-fact reactions to my matter-of-fact
>coming out.  It was rather easy, actually, since invariably I was
>asked to recount the same story.  Whether the question was, "Why
>did you quit your job?" or "Why did you move to California?",
>it was a golden opportunity to tell them that my SO had been
>transferred, that I had moved out with *him*, etc., etc.
>No one ever flinched.  Several people even smiled appreciatively.
>It felt great!  

...and now you don't have to worry about coming out to your boss! :-)

Tom
-- 
Tom Limoncelli -- tal@plts.uucp (home) -- tal@warren.mentorg.com (work)
Heros falling to the ground / like hell's magnet / pulls me down / on my knees
/ I try to please his eyes / his idol eyes. / Jerking motions won't revive him
/ mouth to mount resusitation / I just lay down beside him / and idolize.
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From: alan@auntbea.austin.ibm.com (Alan R. Weiss)
Subject: Re: Understanding
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:55:56 GMT
Organization: (speaking only for myself from Austin, Texas)

In article <MUFFY.92Dec23080635@remarque.berkeley.edu> muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu (Muffy Barkocy) writes:

>What does this have to do with anything?  Last I heard, we were talking
>about feminism.  Now you suddenly pull in gender-neutral language.  What
>does that have to do with people accepting someone calling themselves a
>feminist?

Muffy, this started out as a thread on gender-neutral language.
I have been trying to keep in on this tact for billions of clock ticks.
Please review the entire thread .... ah, shit, on second thought,
nevermind. 


>>Feminism isn't evil - but, IMHO and the opinion of many others (including
>>noted feminists), it has become the worst of all possible worlds -
>>non-essential.  Out of touch with the common womyn.  Elitist, at times.
>>Like most philosophies, it has evolved, and like most large constructs
>>its lost touch with its constituents.
>
>You mean that it is elitist to think that women should be given the
>opportunity to make their own choices, rather than being coerced and
>impeded by society?  This is the first I have heard of that.  Could you
>please explain to me how this is elitist?
>
>Muffy
>--
>
>Muffy Barkocy                      | ~Can you tell me how much bleeding/it
>muffy@mica.berkeley.edu            |  takes to fill a word with meaning and/
>"amorous inclinations"? Aha! I'm   |  how much how much death it takes/to give
>not "not straight," I'm *inclined*.|  a slogan breath?~ - Bruce Cockburn

Obviously you wish to attribute to me those attributes that can
only be described as nonsensical.  Do you *REALLY* think I believe this?
Of COURSE I don't believe this.  In FACT, I believe that REAL FEMINISM (tm)
is EXACTLY this, and more.  Note that this is not necessarily what
post-modern feminism has become, IN SOME CIRCLES.

I can't imagine why someone could EVER be "for" less choice.




-- 
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Newsgroups: soc.bi
From: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
Subject: Re: Selective Memory?
Followup-To: soc.bi
Originator: lunde@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
Reply-To: Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu (Albert Lunde)
Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 16:19:44 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.135134.16226@dsg.cs.tcd.ie> cjmchale@dsg.cs.tcd.ie (Ciaran McHale) writes:
[...]
>will soon pass. I think one reason for the general heat is that feminism is
>being discussed. It seems that a discussion of this topic on soc.bi
>generates a certain amount of heat. Another possible reason is that it
>is approaching Christmas and this might be causing extra stress in the
>lives of some folk here.

I remember some notable flame wars from last xmas, and wonder if
some segment of people leaving the nets for the holidays
while another segment has more free time, has any effect on
the intensity of the dialog.

[...]
>My advice is to post the type of articles which you want to see.
>Hopefully these articles will generate followups and before you know
>it, the prevaling mood of soc.bi will have shifted to something which
>more fully satisfies your needs better.

Yes.
-- 
 Albert Lunde         | Interfaith  |     *Y*Y*      "A branch on the
 Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu |  Bisexual   |      *Y*        tree of life"
                      |  Feminist   |.......|.........................
From: anthropo@carina.unm.edu (Dominick V. Zurlo)
Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 20:45:54 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

In article <BzoDAD.Iwx@cck.coventry.ac.uk> idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid) writes:
>In article <1992Dec22.180544.23713@cbnews.cb.att.com> eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (Piglet) writes:
>>In article <BznvL2.F8n@cck.coventry.ac.uk> idx009@cck.coventry.ac.uk (the Crisco Kid) writes:
>>>In article <BznGFH.KBq@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
(Anyone else want to write)
>>>>hysterical, incredibly myopic media) it wouldn't invalidate my quote.
>>>>They teach us something about grammar, at least.
>>>
>>>Tim, Tim; glass houses, dear friend.  "A hysterical... media"?
>>
>>Kay, Kay, Kay; you're sweet, you're adorable, and you're wrong.
>
>Oh, spank me, spank me... and I'm positively glowing with the
>"sweet and adorable".  Perhaps a small Pigleting episode in my
>Great US Tour?  (When I can work out where Att is, that is :))
>
>>"Media" is a collective noun, which may be referenced in the
>>singular _or_ the plural, depending on context...
>
>Media *are not* a collective noun (or, at least they shouldn't be).
>
>>Piglet, shameless grammar snob
>
>Kay, prescriptivist Bad Man and pedantophiliac :)

Ok, I decided to get in on this one.  You are both right (all right??)
Piglet and Kay are correct...(much nicer construction...)
I looked it up, mainly because as a former member of the print media, 
I wanted an answer.  Well, according to Webster's 9th COllegiate Dict.
(the only one I have in the office) media is singular and medias plural,
although (and I'm paraphrasing here) the word media has been used as a
mass noun (collective) construed as a singular, such as the news media.
however..."this use is not as well established as the mass-noun use of 
data and is likely to incur criticism esp. in writing."  So, you are
both correct to a degree.  
An interesting word is media, since it was a plural to begin with 
(from the singular medium.)  I love Latin....

Dominick

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From: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk (Clive Grace)
Subject: Re: a *bench* of bisexuals?
Reply-To: cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 11:49:00 +0000


> I leave out Clive's come-back line on the 
> grounds that I want to keep down my dinner...

Ah... Ummm... well, it *was* rather ghastly wasn't it? I thought if 
he's gonna fire that sickly shit at me at least fire some of it back!

> Tanaqui, who doesn't *think* she posted anything that should be secret ;-) 

All fine by me... Although did you you have to out me as a [gasp] 
*lager* drinker... me, two stone lighter (hey! I have a Ribcage*!!!!) 
than three months ago? Next you'll be having me importing "Rab C 
Nesbitt" videos into Chicago and California when I visit in 
February...  

D'yawl hear that WHEN I VISIT IN FEBRUARY....

--
+-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| When I grow up, I want to give up being   |cliveg@cix.compulink.co.uk|
| a Journalist and learn how to write...    |                          |
+-------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
|       Bisexual knitter of quality and distinction since 1992.        |
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Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 15:12:30 EST
From: Graydon <SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Re: a silly question
 <1993Jan3.130455.11191@news.acns.nwu.edu>

In article <1993Jan3.130455.11191@news.acns.nwu.edu>, Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu
(Albert Lunde) says:
>>
>>Graydon
>>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>saundrsg@               "Praise then Darkness and Creation unfinished"
>>   qucdn.queensu.ca                   - U. K. LeGuin
>
>An ex-muffin.
>
>(Like your .sig - I'm also a fan of "The Left Hand of Darkness".)
>
>--
> Albert Lunde         | Interfaith  |     *Y*Y*      "A branch on the
> Albert-Lunde@nwu.edu |  Bisexual   |      *Y*        tree of life"
>                      |  Feminist   |.......|.........................

Thanks! (blush).

If you haven't got ahold of 'The Language of the Night' you might
want to find a copy. (LeGuin's collected essays, criticism, and
novel forewords.)  It has some very interesting stuff about what
she was trying to do with The Left Hand of Darkness and how well
she thinks it worked, along with much other neat stuff.

That particular line sat in my head when I re-read Left Hand a couple
of years ago, and wouldn't go away.  (the first time I read it I was
about 14, and most of it bounced.)  The end result was:

Praise then Stone, and the basis of being;
Praise then Earth, that rooted is life;
Praise then the Wood, for the green and the growing;
Praise then Water, for the ebb and flowing;
Praise then Ice, that life has ending;
Praise then Fire, and the impluse the making;
Praise then Air, for the myriad voices;
Praise then Light, and the persistence of vision;
Praise then Darkness, and Creation unfinished.

Just like a LeGuin novel to provide the *end* of something. :]

Graydon
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
saundrsg@               "Praise then Darkness and Creation unfinished"
   qucdn.queensu.ca                   - U. K. LeGuin
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From: miket@hermes.tcs.com (Michael Turner nmscore Assoc.)
Subject: Re: Purity
Organization: Teknekron Communications Inc.
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:30:43 GMT

In article <1i3hr2INN9in@agate.berkeley.edu> rsr@soda.berkeley.edu (Roy S. Rapoport) writes:
>In article <1i2qagINN5ht@rave.larc.nasa.gov> kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>->
>->I want a T-shirt that reads "THERE IS NO ENEMY."
>
>Make one, then.
>
>Wouldn't wear it, myself.  There is an enemy.  There are quite a few
>enemies.  They'll exist until the day it's no longer an issue if you're
>closeted or out, because there will be no difference, no advantage to either
>state.

Uh, Roy, if I remember correctly (and I think I do, because it was
the last post I read), Scott's T-shirt request was in response to
not liking the feeling of being considered an enemy by the androphobic
wing of the Radical Lesbian Party.

>They'll exist for a while.  Move to Colorado.  You'll see the bastards
>around you.

The enemy of my enemy is not my friend.  I didn't choose to be their
enemy -- they chose to be mine.  Not much choice, then.

And "the bastards" you refer to are all around us here, too.  Just
not as many of them, I guess.
---
Michael Turner
miket@tcs.com
From: un032230@wvnvms.wvnet.edu
Newsgroups: soc.bi
Subject: Bi bi y'all!
Date: 23 Dec 92 18:54:26 GMT
Organization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing

See yall!  Its been nice watching your debates- well, ok, not ALWAYS, but its
been informative.  The end of the semester is here and this account dies
tomorrow...I may or may not be able to get an account for next semester- just
have to wait and see how well I can beg the admins for one.  

Mike Lloyd- Thanks alot!  I *HOPE* to have another account, if only to pester
you more in the coming year!

Jim- Wish we coulda gotten the talk thing to work....damned VAX anyway!

Ciaran- You know your stuff, no doubt about that!  Do you have to be so picky
about word usage though?

Masked Muffin- Keep coping.

The rest of you, keep blowing all the straight little minds you can come
across!


cbazzie
Newsgroups: soc.bi,soc.motss
From: eleanor@cbnews.cb.att.com (eleanor.j.evans)
Subject: Re: Liberty (was something relevant about CO-2 long ago...)
Organization: AT&T
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:03:51 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.150903.17299@panix.com> mara@panix.com (Mara Chibnik) writes:
>joe@spdcc.com (Joseph Francis) considers the influence of the effect
>of imposing language differences on people's
>thoughts.  I have some questions about his examples, but that's not
>the real issue for me in what he wrote:
> >(1) Germany, 1935-194?. Ever read German w.r.t. foreigners (i.e.
> >Jews)?  The language, indeed, quickly adapted to the needs of its
> >users, to blame and denigrate 'foreigners'. Now, was this because people
>
>Denigrate?


Wow, Mara, that was subtle.  I stared at the screen a good five minutes
before my brain went *click*.  And it was audible, too.

Does that mean I should strike "denigrate" from my vocabulary?  Or that
it's an excellent example of (1) above.  Or both?


Piglet, sort of pink, with lots of tiny horizontal stripes....
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