Durn it all. That was clearly supposed to be off list. Sorry Fernando.
Chuck Norcutt
Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> 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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