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   Brian M. Scott to All   
   Re: Metric money, and other such nonsens   
   27 Aug 13 02:07:20   
   
   XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.books   
   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 10:17:48 +0800, Robert Bannister   
    wrote in   
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   rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.books:   
      
   > On 27/08/13 12:43 AM, Default User wrote:   
      
   [...]   
      
   > I think you mean "awe-inspiring". It's 20 or 30 years   
   > since "awesome" meant anything more than "very good".   
      
   Depends on the speaker (or writer) and listener (or reader).   
   On the rare occasions when I use , it means   
   'awe-inspiring', though of course I understand the common   
   modern sense.   
      
   [...]   
      
   Brian   
      
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