[Rhodes22-list] Grammer

[L. Sailor]

We'll be seeing more, not less, of this as we reap the
rewards of the anti-grammar movements of the 70's-
90's.

elle

--- 3drecon at comcast.net wrote:

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