[cam.misc] Re: MC Shona won't be our new Police Commissioner then

[August West]

Subject: Re: MC Shona won't be our new Police Commissioner then
From: "Brian Watson" <Br...@imagebus.co.uk>
Newsgroups: cam.misc

"Patrick Gosling" <jp...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message
news:vju*e+...@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk...
> In article <E-s*J9...@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
> Patrick Gosling <jp...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>>Indeed. The things that one should object to are uses that reduce
>>subtlety or precision of expression, and those that introduce ambiguity.
>>
>>Apart from that, change itself isn't a bad thing.
>
> Although I have to admit that while I accept this in theory, in practice
> I still wince at "de-train".

As in "de train now standin' at de platform..."?

:-)

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