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25310: DAiley: <comment) Lavalas English (fwd)





From: Peter Dailey <phdailey@msn.com>

When Aristide or others for whom English is a second or third language encounter a word they do not understand they would be well advised to consult a dictionary rather than a thesaurus. Reign, witness, coup, kidnapping, genocide, holocaust, democracy etc. all have settled well-established meanings. Of course, such persons are free to misuse these words among their own small circle, or bend them into a kind of Orwellian new speak, but they shouldn't thereafter complain that no one pays any attention to what they say.

Peter Dailey