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Subject: Re: [OM] Oh my sainted aunt! [was Windows users - y'all had better read this - Chris and Chuck]
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 18:11:06 +0000
You should normally avoid putting an adverb just before the verb, Bob.  Doing 
so often leads to split infinitives; but then you chaps Over There see nothing 
wrong with those.

I know: now another tin of worms is open :-)

Chris

> On 16 Nov 2014, at 15:52, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> It’s not that we didn’t get the joke—well, I did—but rather that we are 
> driven to the grammar because that’s just the way we are. Or should that be 
> “that’s the way we just are”? <g>

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