Re: META: Watch the subject lines, people!

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Feb 12 2000 - 21:02:33 MST

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QueeneMUSE@aol.com wrote:
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> Boy you sure are wordy....

I beg your pardon, but if you can't be polysyllabically precise on the
Extropians list, where can you be polysyllabically precise? Sometimes
the exactly-right word has a few more syllables than the almost-right
word, but here, of all places, we should feel free to be exactly right.

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