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Thu, 9 Apr 1998 19:19:04 -0500
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Has anyone thought to say that the phrase "Mark Twain" is itself a piece
of jargon, and that "Life on the Mississippi," for example, is
full of riverboat jargon, obsolete at that?

Jargon? It all depends on who's being jarred.

Glen Johnson

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