A poster in a local coffee shop caught my eye. “Abuse,” it said, should not be confined to physical or sexual violence. Rather, it extends into various other areas, such as the technological, the financial, and the spiritual.
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 | | The Phenomenon of Verbal Inflation | | By Patrick Keeney | | A poster in a local coffee shop caught my eye. “Abuse,” it said, should not be confined to physical or sexual violence. Rather, it extends into various other areas, such as the technological, the financial, and the spiritual. | | | | | |   | |
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