On 03/23/99, Terry Carroll <carroll[_at_]tjc.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, 22 Mar 1999, Edward Barrow <edward[_at_]plato32.demon.co.uk> wrote:
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> > (I dislike "decopyright" because, besides being ugly, it implies a
> > verb "to copyright")
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> Do you also dislike the word "decapitate" for analogous reasons?
[This is WAY off the subject of the list, but ... ]
Actually, HMO's use "capitate" as a verb all the time. It means to limit the payment to doctors to a certain amount per patient, so that the doctor bears the risk of having to provide more expensive medical services. This led one doctor to speculate in writing about the advantages of "decapitated" medical programs. After the treatment, the patients don't have any futher complaints ...
[The article is reprinted in "More Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality: Readings from the Journal of Polymorphous Perversity," a collection of parodies of medical journal articles.]
Tyler T. Ochoa
Associate Professor
Whittier Law School
<tochoa[_at_]law.whittier.edu>
Received on Wed Mar 24 1999 - 20:30:52 GMT
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