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    • I agree with you .... mostly. Some of us have other important fish to fry. My VSD series has been…
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    • A fair number of us are both pro-choice AND pro-life.  I guess you might call us the anything-is-better-than-coathangers wing. We…
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    • currently up doesn't lead to problems for you. I would like to use examples in those diaries that are somewhat…
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    • Elgin has some on-target examples. Take a look at the final few chapters in The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense.…
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    • "Are there examples ...not based on assumptions?"   You are entirely right that I made a tacit (and probably inaccurate)…
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    • was to focus on the process of the conversation, not to rehash old and painful injuries.
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    • CategoryVerbalSelfDefense diaries are based on the work of Suzette Haden Elgin. (Crossposted at dKos.)
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    • Is this a point to place site questions? First the compliments--I love the way I get a drop-down menu when…
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    • I wish I knew.  Gentlemen...????
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    • "the first question should not be whether Bush can or will be impeached, but whether he deserves to be impeached.…
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    • First the compliments--I love the way I get a drop-down menu when I hover over my personal page--I can jump…
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    • Excuuuse me... Who gave you the right to tell me what I am saying? Rape is not ONLY a failure…
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    • and am having great fun with one called The Language Imperative.  Anyway she tells this great story(details mangled by yours…
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    • is probably Miller's Law. This from Suzette on the topic: Miller's Law [that's George Miller, psychologist] says: 'In order to…
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    • Huh?  I've raised three (g-b-g). I utterly fail to see what you mean here: 'girls, hardly "battered" by verbal jousting'.…
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    • Not offhand. I probably read it in Discover, as that's the science mag that I get regularly.   I don't…
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    • Lessee.... The biggest difference I can see is that you can probably assume that you have some common--or at least…
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    • there's some overlap between Tannen's work and Elgin's on gender language.  I like Elgin's stuff better--but wherever they overlap, they…
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    • Frog-marched out-- Shouldn't the cops be the frogs?
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