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12/6/2011 10:19 PMMme Scherzo wrote: On the Pew test I got 13/13 and gives me the right to be smugger than 92% of the people who didn't get 13 out of 13 right on the test. I guess. I don't miss libraries. The library in my community is so out of the loop in what they carry that I don't even bother going. I love amazon. I'd like the library, but it smells like homeless people. Reply to this
12/8/2011 4:20 PM
David wrote: I can remember when "homeless person" became the euphemism du jour for "bum." Now that "homeless person" is itself pejorative, and has been for several years, it won't be long before it becomes taboo and we'll be required to use some new term for "bum." A thorn by any other name . . . Reply to this
On the Pew test I got 13/13 and gives me the right to be smugger than 92% of the people who didn't get 13 out of 13 right on the test. I guess. I don't miss libraries. The library in my community is so out of the loop in what they carry that I don't even bother going. I love amazon. I'd like the library, but it smells like homeless people.
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I can remember when "homeless person" became the euphemism du jour for "bum." Now that "homeless person" is itself pejorative, and has been for several years, it won't be long before it becomes taboo and we'll be required to use some new term for "bum." A thorn by any other name . . .
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