From: utzoo!decvax!yale-com!brunix!ljm
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: Surprising words
Article-I.D.: brunix.1508
Posted: Sat Feb 12 10:17:47 1983
Received: Sun Feb 13 05:40:27 1983
References: uw-beave.338,iheds.205


Nothing annoys me more than hearing someone say "The system is comprised
of", rather than "The system comprises..."

Yes, if enough people do it, then it will probably become "current usage"
and we'll all have to put up with it forever, but I'd much rather see
stiff penalties for current mis-users now to prevent such a perversion...

Fed up with lazy language users,
Lou Mazzucchelli
decvax!brunix!ljm