When a SEEMINGLY level-headed and intelligent person on this NG can't
>make the distinction between a declarative statement and a question, I
>wonder if there's any shred of hope of my posts EVER being understood >accurately?
LOL! Why did you end that declarative sentence with a question mark?
Sat, Nov 12, 2005, 4:16pm snipped-for-privacy@asbry.net (alexy) doth say: LOL! Why did you end that declarative sentence with a question mark?
I guess he's decided that if he can't dazzle us with brilliance, he'll baffle us with bullshit. LMAO
JOAT If it ain't broke, don't lend it.
- Red Green
... snip of diatribe regarding grammar
Yep, nothing worse than loose doctrinal statements flying left & right.
:-)
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+After I completed my master's thesis on the Unintended Use of Metaphysics In Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama I just KNEW I should have taken that remedial course on basic English! Why wasn't this guy around to guide me back then?
FoggyTown
I can see that cancelling a post 5 seconds after it appeared here instead of the intended newsgroup has done little to prevent further discussion. I've already posted a new thread (since I couldn't reply to a cancelled post) apologizing for the mistake; it wasn't intended for anyone in this NG.
Please let this thread die, folks
Dave
Due to rampant abuse by various trolls, most news servers ignore cancel requests. Thus, your cancel request probably didn't get honored by more than one or two news servers sitting in a couple of dusty basements in a couple of third world countries. Meaning, your goof has circled the world a few times and you're stuck with it. :-(
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ If you're gonna be dumb, you better be tough +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Why do you have to take a simple post about English grammar and turn it into a Republican and Democrat thing? :-)
Joe aka 10x
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