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Re: Billy's grammar confusion re: "pimping"
In a message dated 97-05-01 11:10:29 EDT, you write:
>Now "pimping" evidence should mean, to keep things straight, selling
>evidence and getting benefit from it that is not rightfully yours. But,
>as used in this context, to pimp evidence is to degrade it through verbal
>means, which does retain some of the meaning of pimp in that a pimp
>degrades women by verbal means (as well as by commercial and physical and
>other means).
>
>
Interesting theory, but I don't even buy this. "Pimping" is an adjective that
means "weak." Webster's, see previous posts for page number. It really seems
that this is another case where debate has borrowed from English for
jargon-creation. Jargon often turns words into other forms of grammar.
I agree that this term degrades no one.
Billy
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