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To: lefty-lie-spy; pieceofthepuzzle

This is because we generally speak our language transparently, saying X because it means Y without knowing or thinking about how X came to mean Y. When we write quickly, we tend to transcribe the sounds of what we say, and somehow hope the spell checker will catch our errors. I cringe at some of the errors in my own FR posts.


9 posted on 08/26/2016 2:30:44 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: chajin

“I cringe at some of the errors in my own FR posts.”

Same here.


10 posted on 08/26/2016 2:32:14 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: chajin

Interesting but I don’t know if it explains the origins of such things as, “I COULD care less” when what is meant is the exact opposite. I seem to see more and more of people writing things that meant the exact opposite of what they want to convey.


14 posted on 08/26/2016 3:32:10 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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