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amsalpemkcus
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Oct 25, 2003, 02:35 PM
 
Let's read some that you may have stumbled on:

Here is an example:
"Most refractory coatings to date exhibit a lack of reliability when subject to the impingement of entrained particulate matter in the propellant stream under extended firing durations."
     
Adam Betts
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Oct 25, 2003, 02:45 PM
 
All of my previous posts..
( Last edited by Adam Betts; Oct 25, 2003 at 02:54 PM. )
     
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Oct 25, 2003, 03:08 PM
 
From Mencken's (I think) description of the prose style of the old Time magazine:

"Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind."
     
m a d r a
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