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To: Riley
Unless you're employed as a human cannonball- then it's 'once more into the breech'.

I've been playing a lot of Total War: Empire, and when you go into first-person mode and you have opened a hole in the fortress wall, when you command a brigade to charge through it, the Englishman commander will yell, "Into the breach, m'lads!!!!"

breach (brch) n. 1. a. An opening, a tear, or a rupture.

I'm doing it right.

But that you for your kind words about how the piece was good and appropriate and how there were no grammer or speling errors and especially how there were no run-on sentences like when other places who do writing have these awful run-on sentences which combine several different points or even paragraphs into one which is against the rules featured in Strunk and Whites 'Elements of Style' which was one of my favorite books in college and helped me learn how to write so gooder.

18 posted on 05/23/2012 7:38:56 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The so-called 'mainstream' media has gone from "biased" straight to "utterly surreal".)
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To: Lazamataz

>>I’m doing it right.

I know you are- I wasn’t criticizing your spelling or word usage.

The not-a-run-on-sentence made me dizzy, though. :-)


22 posted on 05/23/2012 7:53:05 AM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Lazamataz

“...which is against the rules featured in Strunk and Whites ‘Elements of Style’ which was one of my favorite books in college and helped me learn how to write so gooder.”

Couldn’t have made it through many years of college/university without “Elements of Style” on my desk.

I’m glad it helped you avoid run on sentences and write “gooder”.


44 posted on 05/23/2012 10:00:41 AM PDT by Marcella (God wouldn't vote for Romney so I won't, either.)
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To: Lazamataz; Riley
>> Unless you're employed as a human cannonball- then it's 'once more into the breech'.

> ...Englishman commander will yell, "Into the breach, m'lads!!!!"

Actually, it's from Shakespeare's Henry V:

"Once more UNTO the breach, dear friends, once more"
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/269700.html
63 posted on 05/23/2012 7:30:39 PM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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