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NNadir

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4. Well, they were contemporaries. They certainly knew how to...

Reply to AmyStrange (Reply #3)

Wed Jan 20, 2021, 08:32 AM

Jan 2021

..."tweet" in their times without being twits.

It does seem that all that was truly great about the English language has been debased in the last 30 years of so. They of course, were rather good with soundbites, now rebranded as "tweets," but not limited to them.

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