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If negative connotations must be searched for when they are not in context,
to limit your writing by not using them is not productive.
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> From: Melissa Hunter-Kilmer <mhunterk -at- BNA -dot- COM>
> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
> Subject: Re[2]: Speaking of Improper Terminology
> Date: Thursday, September 18, 1997 12:16 PM
>
> Summary for those who don't want to go through this rather long
> post:
>
> If the dominant meaning of a word has negative connotations,
> seems to me one should avoid that word unless one wants to evoke
> those connotations.
>
> Okay, now the long part:
>
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