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Old 08-05-10, 08:43 PM   #123
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Originally Posted by razark View Post
But do we have to let them call it "eating" broccoli? Can't we make them call it "ingesting" or "consuming" instead? "Eating" is our word.
I don't think we should make a big deal of trying to preserve any one traditional definition of the word, you know? Especially considering the fact that our notions of what "eating" consists of have already undergone so many permutations throughout the history of human gastric preferences.
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