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From: lew@ihuxr.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: "change in displacement"
Message-ID: <467@ihuxr.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Jun-83 12:42:38 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 13 12:42:38 1983
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Curtis Jackson threw gas, not water on my "rate of speed" fire. He
quoted the phrase "change in displacement" from Halliday & Resnick.
Displacement is a change in position. Webster's gives "the difference
between the initial position of a body and any later position" as one
definition.

I find "change in displacement" much more offensive than "rate of speed".
Considering that it occurs in an important definition in an authoritative
text, I'm absolutely aghast. I think you will find in general that
educators are equally as capable of linguistic and logical atrocities as
are small town cops.

		Lew Mammel, Jr. ihuxr!lew