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To: Dead Corpse

BTW, love the redundancy in your screen name. It takes brilliance to do that sort of thing, don’tchaknow.


12 posted on 07/22/2010 7:15:10 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Mormons, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when deceived.)
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To: MHGinTN
It's only redundant due to grammatical shift. The original Latin corp-, corpor-, corpus- meant "body" and carried no connotation of said body being alive. It could be a "body of literary work", the "body politic", etc...

I've been using variations of the moniker since the early '90's on various BBS systems, list-servs, Usenet, etc...

20 posted on 07/22/2010 7:24:41 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (III, Alarm and Muster)
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