Things are looking better already!
1) Do not ask it.
2) Do not give it.
3) Do not tell it.
4) Do not hear it.
5) Do not see it.
6) Do not smell it.
7) Do not feel it.
8) Do not touch it.
9) Do not taste it.
10) Basically do not x it.
Just remove it from your language entirely. It serves no purpose. It only cares for itself. Is that CLEAR ? The language English is endlessly recursive microcodes that mean exactly what you want them to mean. Define the terms in your dictionaries and use them precisely to avoid further abberations like it. I know that is not much help, but I am not the one to decide what goes in the language - you are.


[This message has been edited by LCC (edited 11 August 2001).]