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To: rhema
I found it!


164 posted on 02/24/2007 4:16:06 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: SuziQ

Love this! Where can one find this?

This thread has been jolly in between my weekend legislative trolling, but I must back to work. The same training that taught me passable grammar crosses over well in attention to detail. My normally competent state senator has introduced a bill that will require us to move either; a) the city of Midland, or; b) 150 miles of existing highway. My thought is it might be a tad cheaper to amend the bill designating a port to plains system.

Parting thought on getting too picky about grammar, surprised someone else hadn't mentioned it. An anectdote I heard attributed to Queen Elizabeth II, on being queried by a fuss-budget reporter about ending a sentence with a preposition, QE responded, "That is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put." This is a rule which evolution should have buried. General rule of thumb; if it sounds uselessly awkward, it probably is.

Good day, fellow Grammarians, it has been fun.


168 posted on 02/24/2007 4:49:19 PM PST by barkeep (Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc)
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