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From: evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: English decaying
Message-ID: <554@petfe.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 12:16:31 EST
Article-I.D.: petfe.554
Posted: Mon Nov 11 12:16:31 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 04:40:55 EST
References: <1427@cae780.UUCP>, <2472@sunybcs.UUCP>
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Keywords: Say what you mean!

In <2472@sunybcs.UUCP>, Col. G.L. Sicherman writes:
>> Am I getting more sensitive, or is the English language, as used,
>> becoming less logical?
>
>> On all airlines now, for example, the landing message is always "We
>> would like to welcome you to ...".  Well then, why don't they DO it?
>> Isn't "We would like to welcome you to New York" different from
>> "Welcome to New York"?  Don't you expect the first to continue with
>> "but, unfortunately, we landed in  ..."?
>
>The prelude gives your ears time to get used to the sound of the speaker.

OK, then how about when a nightclub singer (read Lounge Lizard) says "I'd like
to do a song, and it goes something like this..."  Doesn't it go EXACTLY
like this...?  Just once I'd like to see one say "...something like this,"
then sing a song, then say "but it goes EXACTLY like this..." and sing an
entirely different song!

--Evan Marcus
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