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Too many prior associations.

Kevin

S*it, Lew, I ain't no engineer - but I know a flying f*ck at a rolling donut when I see one.

You should have more faith in old cabinetmakers.

Some of us even speak English.

Regards, Tom.

Thomas J.Watson - Cabinetmaker (ret.) tjwatson1ATcomcastDOTnet (real email)

you STUPID twit! the troll isn't me. MORON!!

dave

Touché.

Lew

Looks like our little friend has found a home at Delta Newsgroups...I just dropped them a note asking about AUP and informing them that the abuse address seems to be forged. Will see what we get. Sooner or later he/she will have to get a life.

Ditto we historians.

Bob

Shouldn't the be "us historians" that speak English?

- - LRod

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We. Sentance:

We historians speak English.

Subject "We", modified by "historians"

Predicate "speak", modified by "English"

St. Peter heard a knock at the pearly gates:

St. Peter: "Who is it?"

Supplicant: "It is I"

St. Peter: "Oh GREAT. Another English teacher."

One of the _few_ times St. Peter got it wrong.

There'd been a dual fatality on the Sesame St. set, the number 4 was

Go back one step further. The statement preceding "some of us even speak English," which was, "You should have more faith in old cabinetmakers."

The implied subject makes the sentence read: Some of us [cabinetmakers] even speak English.

Echoing that sentiment, the correct implied sentence is: Ditto, [some of] us historians.

I don't really care. I always laugh at the we/us-I/me contortions anyway. Usually the simple test is to add or drop a word and it makes it clear to all. Like newscasters saying at the break, "join Joyce and me with local news..." So many people want to make it "I".

- - LRod

Master Woodbutcher and seasoned termite

Shamelessly whoring my website since 1999