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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Hey Maria & Kristinn. Not all Americans are up-tight about the casual =
<BR>use of a slang adjective (just thought that might need to be said).
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<BR>As for professionalism, this talk is nothing that doesn't commonly occur =
<BR>in the hallways at PTG conventions. I don't know that this forum should =
<BR>be all that different than a convention hallway. I'm also not sure that =
<BR>it is the place of Americans in general, or anyone in particular on this =
<BR>list to dictate linguistic moral standards. This list seems both =
<BR>professional and casual to me (just right). Nothing Maria or anyone else =
<BR>has written seems worth getting upset about (well, at least to me).
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<BR>Oh well, back to counting ballots - or are we supposed to stop - what =
<BR>did the courts say today??????
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<BR>Terry Farrell
<BR>Piano Tuning & Service
<BR>Tampa, Florida
<BR>mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
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<BR>Terry,
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<BR>Very well said.........and in the most non-judgmental possible way. You win <BR>the prize on this go-around, IMHO.
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<BR>Stan Ryberg
<BR>Barrington IL</FONT></HTML>