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From: nather@utastro.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Grammar and Spelling on the Net and Elsewhere
Message-ID: <454@utastro.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 16:04:40 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  2 16:04:40 1986
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In article <568@mtfmp.UUCP>, lje@mtfmp.UUCP (L.ELSER) writes:
> 
> When in doubt, try throwing the whole sentence into the plural.
> It often works.
> Lisa

I tried that, but it was long sentence, and the plural I have was too small
to hold the whole thing.  I *could* have held it in abeyance, which was
plenty big enough, but it seemed the coward's way out ...

-- 
Ed Nather
Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin
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