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Joseph Katnic

2006-04-28, 7:55 am

In article <1146166752.246577.227750@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
Richard <riplin@Azonic.co.nz> wrote:

>
> No. 'practical' means 'in practice' not 'in imagination'.
>
> 'Practically' means that which can be practiced, or actually done,
> excluding those parts that can only be imagined or are not achievable.
> The usage has, however, degraded to merely meaning 'almost' or
> 'nearly'.
>
The sum total of your input amounts to reading from a dictionary.
If that's the limit of debate you wish to bring to the discussion, then
truly we have here an excellent example of the "Failure of
Imagination".

Joe.

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