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From: lew@ihuxr.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: re: rate of speed
Message-ID: <451@ihuxr.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Jun-83 17:15:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  1 17:15:23 1983
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One could possibly defend "rate of speed" as a colloquialism. I don't
think "rate of displacement" will ever displace it. There are other
common forms of displaced qualifiers, such as "hot temperature".
I remember being rankled by a rock song with the phrase "see what condition
my condition is in", although this was artistic license I suppose.