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Where did my Horror go?
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February 10th, 2004, 05:58 PM
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Re: Where did my Horror go?
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Originally posted by E. Albright:
intercomprehensibility
This must be an example of that "language evolution" you alluded to.
Another common example of this is "irregardless".
(For those who care, the former should have said "mutual comprehension", and the latter "regardless". The extra prefixes are redundant. Unless one is making a joke by knowingly butchering the language.)
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