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----- Original Message ----- From: <lweiger at umich.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 1:13 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Pollitt on Dean
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> --On Thursday, September 04, 2003 3:49 PM -0500 budge
> <budge at el-pleasant.org> wrote:
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> > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 at 2:00am Luke Benjamin Weiger wrote:
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> > > nattering nabob of negativity
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> > 'negativism'
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> > safire would never use such poor grammar.
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> Then Safire gets misquoted a lot. In any event, I believe both are
> grammatically correct, though perhaps 'negativism' is the better word
> choice within the context of the rest of the sentence.
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> -- Luke
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