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   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 03:20:09 GMT, Wayne Throop   
    wrote in  in   
   rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.books:   
      
   >::: 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.  [...]   
      
   >: "Brian M. Scott"    
   >: 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.   
      
   > Or, more likely imo, whimsy.   
      
   Which is unlikely to be possible unless the person in   
   question has at least some inclination towards pedantry, and   
   which I know from experience can be a polite expression of a   
   stronger reaction.  I admit to having deliberately chosen a   
   whimsical expression of the reaction, simply because it   
   amuses me, but I did rather expect readers to recognize from   
   the context that I was talking about *all* formally negative   
   reactions to this use of the word.   
      
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