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Subject:Re: Parataxis? Does it take a paradigms? From:Al Rubottom <arubottom -at- EXPERSOFT -dot- COM> Date:Fri, 12 Sep 1997 17:12:18 -0700
At 07:40 PM 9/12/97 -0400, Dianne Walsh wrote:
>At 06:11 PM 9/12/97 -0500, Pat Gantt wrote:
>>...
>Yes, yes, yes! I see it all the time and in most cases, the words 'model'
>or 'example' would do. The only word that makes my butt squinch more is
>"proactive." Just looking at both words on the same page is bringing on
>waves of butt squinching--not to mention nausea.
BUT, without a proactive paradigm to paraphrase parataxis-paralyzed
paragraphs, you'd par-obably partake of parboiled parabolic parenteral
parfuscations. Perfunctorily, or perhaps perversely,,, p-p-pardon me?
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