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   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 10:38:23 +0800, Robert Bannister   
    wrote in   
    in   
   rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.books:   
      
   > On 25/08/13 2:21 PM, Brian M. Scott wrote:   
      
   >> On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 10:09:40 +0800, Robert Bannister   
   >>  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.  [...]   
      
   >> No, it isn’t.  That reaction to the most common current   
   >> sense of  is largely confined to those who   
   >> are both reasonably well-educated and *not* young.  It’s   
   >> almost as big a giveaway of either age or pedantry as   
   >> the reaction ‘What, we’re going to bounce?’ in response   
   >> to ‘We’ll be on the ground momentarily’.   
      
   > That one is a pondial difference.  [...]   
      
   I’m well aware of that.  It’s beside the point that I was   
   making: within the cultural context in which the usage is   
   common -- i.e., in the U.S. -- the reaction is indeed a sign   
   of age or pedantry.   
      
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