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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Back in my days of being in the active duty Air Force, a certain staff sergeant from one of the Southern States was a constant source of amusing amalgamations of ideas into pithy single words. Once when one of his underlings failed to accomplish a task to his satisfaction, I overheard him chide the man about “having some kind of misconfusion about what he was supposed to do…†This, I must add, was something that everyone instantly understood even though we had never heard it before…
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