[Rhodes22-list] Grammer

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How about "for" free or  "less" people (or insert your own object) rather than "fewer".   It makes me crazy!

Philip

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From: "L. Sailor" <watermusic38 at yahoo.com> 

> An easy way to remember: 
> 
> "I imply, you infer" and 'Bring & come', 'take & go.' 
> 
> Do you think they'll ever get 'number' & 'amount' 
> straight again...as in "A large amount of accidents on 
> I-95." AARGH. 
> 
> (Sorry...the schoolmarm just reared her pince-nez'd 
> head...) 
> 
> elle 
> 
> --- Herb Parsons wrote: 
> 
> > Small point, but you're misusing the word "infer". 
> > You would have made the implication, Brad would have 
> > (but maybe not) drawn the inference. 
> > 
> > 
> > Herb Parsons 
> > 
> > S/V O'Jure 
> > 1976 O'Day 25 
> > Lake Grapevine, N TX 
> > 
> > S/V Reve de Papa 
> > 1971 Coronado 35 
> > Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana Coast 
> > 
> > >>> DCLewis1 at aol.com 10/26/2006 3:26:05 pm >>> 
> > 
> > In a message dated 10/26/2006 9:16:12 A.M. Eastern 
> > Standard Time, 
> > flybrad at gmail.com writes: 
> > 
> > Remember, "Good people sleep peaceably in their beds 
> > at night only because 
> > rough men stand ready to do violence on their 
> > behalf." 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Brad, 
> > 
> > Regarding "read between the lines": In my experience 
> > reading between the 
> > lines applies to poetry and fiction - perhaps that's 
> > were you're experience 
> > is. But in the real world, if I wanted to say the 
> > men and women in the service 
> > were to dumb to get jobs in the private sector I 
> > would have said it plainly. 
> > I didn't say it, I didn't infer it, and I didn't 
> > think it. You might well 
> > served if you learned to read the English language 
> > as it's presented and 
> > curb your imaginative paranoid tendencies. 
> > 
> > As to Remember, "Good people sleep peaceably in 
> > their beds at night only 
> > because 
> > rough men stand ready to do violence on their 
> > behalf." 
> > 
> > Who protects the good people from the rough men? Oh 
> > yeah, there is that 
> > problem, and there is no free lunch. Good people 
> > have to protect themselves, 
> > and we're quite capable of doing that. I don't need 
> > any rough man to do 
> > violence on my behalf, thank you, and I suspect that 
> > applies to everyone else on 
> > this list. 
> > 
> > Dave 
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