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Old 01-19-2007, 08:37 PM   #119 (permalink)
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Explicate. To make explicit. It's clear, from your posts, that you'd rather use two words when you can use one, but don't impose that religion on me. I don't believe in it..
"explicate exactly' as opposed to 'explicating inexactly'? Ok Spock, you write how you want, as I said, I didn't mean it as an ad homimen (please see a few posts down) but as some friendly advice. When I see prose like that I see what Orwell was talking about. It's like profspeak. Do you agree with the points of Orwell's essay?

By the way, I don't refine religion as culture.

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"
-- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

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