[Grovenet] word usage

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Wed Feb 7 09:57:06 PST 2007


"Different than"   I had it pounded into my head in my youth that it is 
"different from." Tsk, tsk.   Must be getting old.

Jane B-P


> In a message dated 2/6/2007 3:08:55 PM Central Standard Time, 
> grovenet-request at rdrop.com writes:
> 
> Okay, so  what other abuses and misuses of words grate on you folks
> > > out  there? Got one?
> 
> 
> I've been wondering, of late, why I was not officially  notified that
> "disrespect" is to be popularly used as a verb now instead of as  mere noun. 
> Someone,
> somewhere, has surely disrespected me in this  respect.
> Joy
> 
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