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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Soc.Motss.* / Automoderation.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.043924.6155@macc.wisc.edu>
- Sender: news@macc.wisc.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
- References: <1992Dec20.223745.19613@dvorak.amd.com> <1992Dec21.025922.28699@macc.wisc.edu> <1992Dec22.000941.7726@dvorak.amd.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 04:39:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.000941.7726@dvorak.amd.com>
- tdbear@dvorak.amd.com (Thomas D. Barrett) writes:
-
- >It would be nice to segragate the news and glaad
- >postings and such in a readonly directory which is moderated by
- >whomever wants to take the job.
- ^^^^^^^^
-
- Minor grammatical clue (not a flame): you can eliminate this
- word completely from your language and never once be wrong.
- If you keep it, you'll be risking the error you made here;
- the correct word in this context (the subject of its clause)
- is "whoever."
-
- A little hypercorrection almost always goes the wrong way, eh?
-
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