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Subject: Re: [OM] Speaking of paradigms [was The fate of the Universe [wasIMG: Friday Flower, sort of ...]]
From: Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:46:26 -0500
Don't forget that when "We the people . . . in order to form a more  
perfect . . . etc." was written, most of the writers and signers were  
still a bunch of renegade Englishmen.

--Bob Whitmire
www.bwp33.com




On Nov 14, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Moose wrote:

> Nevertheless, I live in a different country with its own major variant
> of English and the usage "more perfect" to mean what you would say as
> "closer to perfect" is common accepted usage here.

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