Re: [CR]Re: Should we use vintage terms or dilute our passion?

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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:18:46 -0500
From: "John Thompson" <JohnThompson@new.rr.com>
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance
To: "Classicrendezvous@Bikelist.Org" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Should we use vintage terms or dilute our passion?
References: <MONKEYFOODRf3sllNY300007602@monkeyfood.nt.phred.org>
In-Reply-To:


Tom Sanders wrote:
> Ted,
> With all due respect, I fail to see where someone should be censored for
> using a term different from that which you use. I also fail to see how not
> using vintage terms dilutes our passion. Perhaps it dilutes yours, I feel
> it does no harm to mine. Fact is, if someone feels comfortable using a
> reasonably correct term that we all know and share the meaning of, it hurts
> no one.

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Maybe I missed something, but I took Ted's comments as "tongue in cheek."

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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA