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From: jimb@ism780
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Decaying language skills
Message-ID: <63500006@ism780>
Date: Wed, 26-Mar-86 22:14:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar 26 22:14:00 1986
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Nf-From: ism780!jimb    Mar 26 19:14:00 1986



>> Said the DJ on a nationwide syndicated radio program last weekend:
>>
>>       "... one of those voices with a uniqueness all its own".

> And what is wrong with this sentence.  Are YOUR language skills decaying?!?
> "its" refers to "one"!  Go back to high school and learn something this time!!
> (unsigned)

You win the booby prize, bozo, for having leaped to a false conclusion about
what was wrong -- and funny -- about the originally quoted sentence, thereby
impaling yourself upon your own stupidity.  I won't suggest that you go back
to high school; I will suggest you pick up a copy of Strunk & White's
ELEMENTS OF STYLE for grammar and one of the MISS MANNER'S books for making
a fool out of yourself in public.  You damned well should at least make sure
that you're right about an issue before you post such an obnoxious flame.

			     -- from the snarls of Jim Brunet

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