Ooops! It's been a long time but it's time for another brief English
lesson. "steel" is a metal made from iron. "steal" is the verb you
were looking for but the correct form here would have been "And ready to
be stolen". (Yeah, I know, doesn't make any sense).
"robbed" could have been used but "robbed" is something done to you as a
person. It would more typically be used in a sentence such as: "I was
robbed". The bag could have been robbed from you but the bag itself
(being an inanimate object) couldn't be robbed except in the sense that
"from you" is implied if not explicitly stated. I suppose I could make
a case for robbed being correct but it's a rather awkward construction.
Stay with "stolen". :-)
Chuck
Fernando Gonzalez Gentile wrote:
> I couldn't help it.
> I knew it was heavy, read Ken and Moose's warning yesterday night ......
> But only for today I had the chance to buy a *new* Nature AWII for 260 -
> if you lived in Montevideo you might consider that an almost-fang.
> And I wanted something where I could be able to put everything together
> and transport or store it, and ready to fly out without thinking.
> And ready to be steeled ( robbed ? ) altogether in a single gesture .... :-(
>
> Anyway, I have my small and well used no-name bag for planned outgoings,
> and when I want to travel light, I put one body, one zoom and one wide
> mixed with all sort of things, in my go-anywhere bag _ but the tripod is
> always difficult to allocate, and I am too spoiled by them.
>
> FWIW
>
> Fernando.
>
> WayneS wrote:
>> Trekkers are heavy.
>
>
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