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From: acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (Jim Poltrone)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: inflationary language
Message-ID: <1248@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Mar-84 17:27:35 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 20 17:27:35 1984
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(and i thought an oxymoron was the one with the deep voice telling us about
benzoyl peroxide (you know, those pimple commercials (oxy 5) ) )
   
I recall Victor Borge doing a sketch on "inflationary language" some time
ago.  (I'd put the words up here on the net, but let's not have another
thermal explosion here with legalities, okay?)  I can give you an example:
   
    I am a lieuelevanant in the United States Air Fivece.
 
try to figure out how inflationary language is developed.
  
"Your flames cannot harm me; my wings are like a shield of steel."
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