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Re: A pain in the Gaffa!

From: raspail!steve@SHAMASH.CDC.COM (Steve Schonberger)
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 88 16:26:09 CDT
Subject: Re: A pain in the Gaffa!
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Posted-Date: Tue, 6 Sep 88 16:26:09 CDT

> From: sri-unix!garth!hal@DECWRL.DEC.COM (Hal Broome)

> > (1) Kate thinks that "Gaffa" is a brand of gaffa tape,
> > (2) "Gaffa" *is* a brand of gaffa tape.

> Or how about a third reason: nouns are capitalized in song titles?  I
> don't think anyone would argue that suspended is a brand name. . . .

How about this one: Kate is pretending that the tape is a place name
instead of a type of tape.  In other words, making a metaphor with the
capitalization.  The implication is that Gaffa is a place that is like
the tape.

	Steve Schonberger
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