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by Dr. Molto Breve


SIGN UP IN ADVANCE: So many conferences and other events ask us to do this. Some even want us to preregister, or even preregister is advance. What was ever wrong with register?

How interesting: When I type preregister, Microsoft's spell checker marks it with a jagged red underline, and I'll bet they use the word themselves.

To us at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, a request to "sign up in advance" shows that the event was organized by cerebroporosis sufferers, temporal retentives, or both.

Instead of signing up or registering, we send them our brochure. We describe our fundraising drive for the Edwin Newman Memorial Clinic for temporal retentives, and we invite contributions.



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