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From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Clipper - SET EXACT <on/off>, SEEK
Message-ID: <1990Dec5.011402.27627@pegasus.com>
Date: 5 Dec 90 01:14:02 GMT
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In article <15730.275aa66e@levels.sait.edu.au> marwk@levels.sait.edu.au writes:
>
>In fact 'being SOOKEN' is an attemp to use the PASSIVE tense!
>SOOKEN should be replaced by SOUGHT.  Gone are the days when children
>learnt about their language - Using SOUGHT does not put the sentence into
>the past tense, but somply makes it passive.
>
>Ray
>former cub

I'm sort of a believer in English evolution by general usage and was merely
attempting to worm "sooken" into the language.  I remain unfamiliar with
your use of the Old English "somply" however... <heh, heh>

BTW, I notice that you are in Australia.  Anywhere near Sydney ?  I'll be
"one of the featured speakers" (according to the advertising literature)
at the Clipper Developer's Conference in Feb. 1991 (25th - 27th)

tom