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   mINE109 to ScottW   
   Re: A ray of truth in your dim dark worl   
   07 Jan 24 14:14:36   
   
   From: pianoforte109@yahoo.com   
      
   On 1/7/24 1:27 PM, ScottW wrote:   
   > Attempting to have a civil, intelligence debate with a leftist is not   
   dissimilar to trying to nail Jell-O to the wall. Try as you might, they both   
   slip away.   
   >   
   > Need an attribute?   
      
   If you're talking about the Hunger Games, that's "a tribute." The   
   linguistic process involved is called "rebracketing."   
      
   Perhaps you meant "cite" or an "attribution" which is a different thing   
   altogether. Canadians explain it this way:   
      
   https://opentextbc.ca/selfpublishguide/chapter/citation-vs-attribution/   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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