[extropy-chat] Re: Gullible

[Kevin Freels]

Please tell me this is a joke! If this word is removed, that will open the
door to removal of all kinds of words that will be somehow offensive to one
group or another!
How could these people who removed it fromthe dictinary be so gullible?
Kevin Freels

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey at yahoo.com>
To: "ExI chat list" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2004 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Re: Gullible


>
> --- scerir <scerir at libero.it> wrote:
> >
> > At the same time they've also discovered how their
> > ancestral name has been turned into a derogatory term
> > in the English language. As a result they are campaigning
> > to try and get the word removed in it's current form
> > from the English language. The biggest purveyor (For want
> > of a better word) of the English language are dictionaries,
> > so that's what they concentrated on.
>
> I think they are pretty gullible if they think that removing the world
> 'gullible' from our dictionaries is going to keep people from referring
> to them as the most gullible bunch of Guleb on the planet.
>
> I think this is going to become one of my favorite words now....
>
>
> =====
> Mike Lorrey
> Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
> "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
> It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
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