It is my understanding that products are still effective 10 days beyond
their expiration date.
Michael
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Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: [tips] Canada's early intolerance
Despite Allen E's declaration that this thread, with its unlikely
subject header, has reached its "sell-by-date" (that's "best by" to
Canucks), I can't restrain myself here.
I had asserted that the word "verbiage" used by Michael Smith to
describe certain TIPS posters carried an insulting connotation. Mike
rashly denied this, arguing
I disagree. I don't see the word verbiage to be an insult. It means an
over-abundance of words.
True. But it means more than that. The magisterial Oxford English
Dictionary (the OED) says, as part of its brief definition of
"verbiage, "Wording...without necessity or without much meaning".
That's an insult in my book (well, ok in the OED's book).
Lesser lights concur.
World English Dictionary
verbiage - n
1. The...often meaningless use of words
Computing Dictionary
verbiage definition
This term borrows the connotations of mainstream "verbiage" to
suggest that the documentation is of marginal utility and that the
motives behind its production have little to do with the ostensible
subject.
The Oxford Dictionary (another one, I guess)
A profusion of words usually of little or obscure content
Collins English Dictionary
1. the excessive and often meaningless use of words
And finally, my wife agrees with me, so I must be right.
So, Mike, I'm willing to admit that some of my posts may be too long
if you admit that yours are verbiage.
Stephen
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Stephen L. Black, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, Emeritus
Bishop's University
Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca
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