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From: Benedict Verheyen <benedict.verheyen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: The devolution of English language and slothful c.l.p behaviors exposed!
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:43:59 +0100
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On 24/01/2012 7:06, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:57:16 -0800, Rick Johnson wrote:
> 
>> Here is a grep from the month of September 2011 showing the rampantly
>> egregious misuse of the following words and phrases:
>>
>> * pretty
>> * hard
>> * right
>> * used to
>> * supposed to
> 
> I'm pretty sure that this news group is supposed to be for discussing the 
> Python programming language. At least it used to be about Python. It is 
> hard to understand why you think discussing English idioms is the right 
> thing to do here.
> 
> 
> 

I agree with the above and 1000 points to Steven for
his funny reply :)

Cheers,
Benedict