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Sorry Chris, but check out entry 3 in the dictionary...<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=unique&x=0&y=0">http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=unique&x=0&y=0</a><br>
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Maybe the English language has officially changed to aggravate you.<br>
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Mark<br>
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Christopher Randall wrote:<br>
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to: As in "I went to the surplus store." "I was going to buy one of
those."
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It should be noted that, while it is generally considered bad form to
end an English sentence with a preposition, it isn't, like, against
the law or anything. It's mainly a holdover from Latin, where a noun
_must_ have a corresponding preposition. When writing and speaking
English, context is less important (go figure...) so, if you're the
daring sort, you can just leave those prepositions hanging out there
waving in the wind. Chances are, no one will notice anyways, since the
Intardweb is a Petri dish filled with agar agar, where bad grammar
will thrive like a colony of mutant Escherichia coli. <br>
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While we're on the subject, my main pet peeve, grammatically speaking,
is qualifying the word "unique." Something that is unique is, by
definition, one of a kind. There aren't any degrees of uniqueness.
Something can't be "very unique" or "almost unique" or "extremely
unique." This drives me absolutely batty. <br>
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