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Dear Discriminating People,
Please ignore this advice. Careful use of language involves making careful distinctions while using words. That requires a presumption in favour of adding more words to the language. Yes, the verb form of terror is terrify. The verb form of terrorist is terrorise. The two actions are different and so we need two different words [...]




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