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Subject: Re: [OM] Oh my sainted aunt! [was Windows users - y'all had better read this - Chris and Chuck]
From: Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 18:16:49 +0000
Or a steel can of worms?

On 16 November 2014 18:11, ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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