Now who's being pedantic?   ;-)

Dave

On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 05:05:20PM -0500, Denys Beauchemin wrote:
> You know dogs that can say "I intuited" ?
> 
> Denys
> 
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> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: "Pedantic" Sighting
> 
> Very COMMON perception thing IMHO. Ever noticed more of a car make/model
> once you buy or decide to look seriously at buying one?
> 
> I find the worst thing is when some cretin "invents" a new word and it seems
> to be picked up by everybody and their dog. Especially irritating when they
> convert word types- most will know about 'intuition' - it's a noun , a name
> for a sense or method of arriving at a conclusion. Somebody is now making it
> into a verb, as in 'I intuited...'    arrrhhhhhggggggg!!!! Whats wrong with
> divined, guessed, suspected etc?
> 
> jp
> 

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