[dayglored]

> (Verb tense agreement, your mortal enemy, would appear to have hoisted you on your own petard.)

Nope, sorry. 10 points deducted for ignorance of the classics, to wit, Shakespeare's Hamlet:

Let it work;
For 'tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petar; and 't shall go hard...

Swordmaker's use of the phrase is an obvious reference to the original.

I must say, however, that other than this bit of unintentional humor, the exchange is getting a bit long in the tooth.

[flintsilver7]

I totally agree, by the way, that this exchange is getting old.

I know the reference, by the way, but since he doesn’t do the rest of his talking in the King’s English I was assuming he was not directly quoting Shakespeare. I merely assumed he was continuing his habit of using suspect grammar.