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From: Rahul Dhesi
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 00:00

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In <3mdc1l$q7u@news.arc.nasa.gov> summers@max.arc.nasa.gov (David
Summers) writes:

>The use of "illiterate" to mean "semiliterate"
>is in fact a slang definition resulting from misuse of illiterate when
>the more accurate "semiliterate" is the "correct" word.

Aside:

On the one hand I don't see what this has to do with the subject
heading.  On the other hand, I do! :-)

But the question:

If somebody pronounces 'semi-literate' as 'semye-literate', is
that person semiliterate, semye-literate, or illiterate?
-- 
Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>
"please ignore Dhesi" -- Mark Crispin <mrc@CAC.Washington.EDU>

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From: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>
Subject: Re: NETCOM acount deleted "accidentally", please read
Date: 1995/04/12
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