Re: The Japanese language makes me commit sepuku !!!

From: Sean (seanpantsholland_at_telus.pants.net)
Date: 02/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 15:31:20 GMT

necoandjeff wrote:

> Sean wrote:
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>>necoandjeff wrote:
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>>>Louise Bremner wrote:
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>>>>necoandjeff <spam@schrepfer.com> wrote:
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>>>>>Cindy wrote:
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>>>>>>Rafael Caetano wrote:
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>>>>>>>Sean <seanpantsholland@telus.pants.net> wrote:
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>>>>>>>>Maybe, but around here, if someone walked into the local Right
>>>>>>>>to Die Society office with a bloody great sword, offering his
>>>>>>>>services, he might get turned down.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Of course. One should at least clean the blood off the sword
>>>>>>>between assisted murders, don't you think?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>That's right. Technically, you are supposed to use a sterile
>>>>>>sword each time to prevent a possibility of infection.
>>>>>
>>>>>Wasn't it George Carlin who pointed out the absurdity of
>>>>>sterilizing the needles that they use to kill someone by lethal
>>>>>injection?
>>>>
>>>>You wouldn't want those doctors to get into bad habits, would you?
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>>>Which, if true, begs the next question: Do you need someone as highly
>>>skilled as a doctor to stick a needle in someone's arm for the
>>>intention of killing them (and wouldn't that violate the Socratic
>>>oath in any event)? I seriously doubt those executioners are MDs.
>>>
>>>Jeff
>>>
>>
>>Oh, Jeff, no! Not you too? "Begging the question" was a perfectly good
>>philosphical term of art referring, I believe, to including as one of
>>your premises the conclusion towards which you are arguing. And now
>>people are running around using it to mean "raising the question." It
>>is a sad state we are in.
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> Yes, it's true, language usage changes over time. Live with it, dude.
>
> Jeff

So do you also say "irregardless" and "I could care less"?

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