knight ridder service

[Richard Romeo]

I always cringe when I hear people use Vietnam-grunt talk in everyday 
speech--beaucoup, etc.


>From: Cjhurtt6 at aol.com
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: knight ridder service
>Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 14:49:17 EDT
>
>just came across this bit by deborah claymon in the paper....
>
>".....the vibrant pace of innovation and the present urge to be an insider
>spills over from the technology industry into our everyday speech. as a
>result, it has become commonplace for ordinary people to use terms like
>"vapoware" to refer to an outrageous boast or "multitasking" to describe 
>the
>sticky situation of having two love interests."
>
>the italics are mine.
>1. ordinary people?
>2. multitasking? what has the world become?

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