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In Saturday's Letters to the Editor

long beach, library, russia, georgia, jonah goldberg, max boot, hillary clinton, barack obama, convention, meghan daum, words, endangered species, george bush, letters, opinion l.a., isaac hayes, blaxploitationIn Saturday's letters, more thoughts on the situation in Georgia (including responses to columns by Jonah Goldberg and Max Boot), Hillary Clinton and the Democratic convention, "regulatory change" for the Endangered Species Act, Long Beach's library and Isaac Hayes

Two readers write that they loved Meghan Daum's Aug. 9 column on poor usage of the word "nonplussed," but add that they were themselves nonplussed to see The Times make other usage and grammar errors that day.  Writes R.H. Joseph, of McDonough, Ga.:

Even as Daum decries people using words outside their original meaning, [Neil] Gabler begins his column with the phrase, "the most ubiquitous."  Are there degrees of ubiquity? 

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