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Re: force



Lighten up guys. As I read it, the original correspondent was
making a humorous reference,
replacing the word 'push' by 'force' to illustrate the
inadequacy of 'defining' forces as pushes and pulls.
Margaret Mazzolini

On Tue, 29 Oct 1996, Clarence Bennett wrote:



What does "I 'force' a stalled car" mean? That's a new expression on me. Has
American English become so corrupted that we can speak so that no one
understands us?


Roger

Yes.

Clarence