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--- In , Reinhard Engels 
<beautiful_idiot@y...> wrote:
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> N-day for "non-S day" Gets talked about a lot, is a mouthful, and 

easy to mix up.

Reinhard

Hello Our No S Founder Who Art in Cambridge :)
Call me a creature of habit, but I am just too used to saying No S 
day...and somehow "N-Day" just lacks some certain "je ne se 
quois"
Also, I am laughing because we are talking about saving one 
syllables worth of speaking/writing energy! (talk about streamlining 
the ultralight of Diets, LOL)...and *now I* will get even *more* 
anal and go as far as saying that having N day alone is like 
thinking "today is a 'Non' day". Syntax and grammar-wise, something 

seems wrong about having a modifier like "Non" without the 
noun....When I studied linguistics at Columbia, we learned alot 
about the fine points of semantics...I loved that course. According 
to some great linguist, we are all born with an internal Language 
Acquisiton Device, abbreviated LAD..."N-day" feels wrong to my LAD 

and just plain "off".....I am the kind of person who cringes when 

people say "couth" when they mean the opposite of *uncouth*...the 

word doesn't exist...Yes I am an anal bugger.
Call it what you wish, however I will stick with using the "classic" 

version :)
Love "n" Peace,
Deb