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Article #4335Re: NYC Slang Needed for Newspaper Column
From: Lee Rudolph
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 08 Jun 1997 00:00
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Myles Callum <callum@POP.EROLS.COM> writes: >On 8 Jun 97 at 6:35, Lee Rudolph wrote: >> Remarkable. It's a commonplace that, in a book aimed at a popular >> audience, each equation included in the text halves the number of >> buyers. So how does A&E (I believe that's a reference to some >> television network, isn't it?) get away with subscripts, of all >> things? >It's an unusual network. All of its viewers can read. Do all its viewers use "subscript" to mean "subtitle", as G. Pappin seemed to be doing? (Have I gotten hopelessly out of touch with the jargon of movie-and-TV-watching?) Lee Rudolph
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b097,43422437759e355f X-Google-Attributes: gid10b097,public X-Google-Thread: 102ffd,dc7374701c053c17 X-Google-Attributes: gid102ffd,public From: lrudolph@black.clarku.edu (Lee Rudolph) Subject: Re: NYC Slang Needed for Newspaper Column Date: 1997/06/08 Message-ID: <5nfnbg$dpb$1@black.clarku.edu> X-Deja-AN: 247149323 References: <199706082216.SAA11775@smtp2.erols.com> Followup-To: alt.usage.english Organization: Clark University Newsgroups: alt.usage.english,bit.listserv.words-l