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- From: mysti@sierra.sybase.com (Mysti Rubert)
- Newsgroups: soc.singles
- Subject: Re: The Classiest Pickup Lines
- Message-ID: <28451@sybase.sybase.com>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 19:22:34 GMT
- References: <27793@sybase.sybase.com> <1993Jan10.215534.27559@sol.UVic.CA> <28034@sybase.sybase.com> <1993Jan17.172610.6034@netcom.com>
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- In article <1993Jan17.172610.6034@netcom.com>, aahz@netcom.com (Mean Green Dancing Machine) writes:
- |> In article <28034@sybase.sybase.com> mysti@sierra.sybase.com (Mysti Rubert) writes:
- |> > [deleted]
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- |> >Speaking with or to anyone for any express purpose other
- |> >than getting to know them is usurious and inherently unclassy,
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- |> Mytsi, Mytsi, Mytsi, haven't you learned that engaging in grammar flames
- |> is inappropriate when you don't know the English language all that well,
- |> either?
- |> --
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- Actually my quarrel with the guy/girl who runs things together is not
- a grammatical quarrel, merely an orthographic one (the charge of vaugeness
- is a semantic complaint).
-
- Are you related to Chuckles? He too seems to focus on my all-too-frequent
- typos (not that I would expect anyone with a penchant for prescriptive grammar
- to allow me to invent the word usurous (typo was "usurious") an adjectival
- form of "use") and not on the propositions at hand. Even if I was just
- butt-stupid about english, single errors in a clear context are a different
- manner of beast from deliberate vaguaries and cutsie running-together words,
- aren't they?
-
- Cheers
- --
- ========================
- Mysti Rubert, Oaktown, California
-
- "It's not the men in my life, but the life in my men." Mae West
-