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#387 "Criminally Inclined, Grammatically Policed"

The Fifth Column

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You Shouldn't Say, Jip, Right?

"You can't trust these people with the etymology of these phrases," he says. "Things have weird etymologies... And if it touches upon something that is no longer acceptable or something we don't think today, do we try in this Orwellian way ... to expunge the language of its unfortunate roots?"

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