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echo: aust_avtech
to: Rod Gasson
from: David Drummond
date: 1997-02-14 06:34:46
subject: HMMM?

Rod, at 23:44 on Feb 11 1997, you wrote to David Drummond ...

DL>>> Australia was interested in hearing him call me an Abbo in
DL>>> Aust -Avtec ...and back him up that i should not be
DL>>> offended...

DD>> Are you an indigenous person?  Why do you find the term 
DD>> "Abbo" offensive?

RG> Because it's supposed to be "Abo"  (just one 'b') ...  short 
RG> for Aborigine   

RG> Where are the pedants when ya need them 

So the offence is taken about the mis-spelling?

David
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