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   Message 26,543 of 28,343   
   Brian M. Scott to All   
   Re: Metric money, and other such nonsens   
   25 Aug 13 16:33:36   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.books   
   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 19:45:41 GMT, Wayne Throop   
    wrote in  in   
   rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.books:   
      
   >:: Me too.  Clearly "today's" meaning is restricted to   
   >:: newspapers and young people.  Further evidenced by the   
   >:: lower case r in "Roman" above.   
      
   > The capitalization is independent of either youth or   
   > decimation pedantry (or lack of).   
      
   It is not entirely independent of either youth or pedantry   
   in writing.   
      
   > So the capitalization is not "further evidence" of   
   > anything.   
      
   Chiefly because the statement preceding it is false.   
      
   Brian   
      
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