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		mturmon on Feb 10, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Startup dudes: Cut the sexist crap "tone deaf" is common, but it is being replaced by "clueless" over the last 10-20 years: http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=tone+deaf%2Cclu... burgeoning, is, compared to erstwhile: http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=erstwhile%2Cbur... erstwhile replaced quondam in about 1910: http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=erstwhile%2Cquo...

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