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Re: [OM] OT: Dubai 777 Crash

Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Dubai 777 Crash
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 21:32:01 +0100
So, Bob, I’m not wrong, but my expression jars with your sense of elegance? ;-)

Chris

> On 19 Sep 16, at 18:40, Bob Whitmire <fujixbob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> By the way, not to miss an opportunity to be pedantic, particularly with
> the Chief Constable of the Olympus List Language Constabulary, I suggest
> "I'll try _to_ find a 777 pilot _to_ ask" rather than "... try and find
> ..." Although the second 'and' is not incorrect as you will try to find
> someone and ask him/her. Two distinct operations, Someone to ask, though,
> has a cleaner sound to it.  ;-)

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