In a message dated 4/18/2003 2:43:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< first of all, correcting sentance structure as a way to belittle someone's
 argument is really low. seriously. i think we're all above that! we are all
 very busy and participate in this list for our own enrichment -- a few
 grammatical errors or some casual language can be overlooked!! >>

Whoa, Beth!  Simmer down.  I was not correcting Jay's sentence structure!
Jay is a very articulate writer who doesn't need any help.  I was just trying
to understand what he meant.  Possibly he didn't mean to insert the phrase
"to say," in which case it's a sentence that seems to reflect his opinion.
But normally when someone starts a sentence with "to say" [something,
something, something], it ends with, "is like saying" or "is to say"
[something else].  It sounded like he left out the ending and I was curious
to know what it was.  If you think that's grammatical criticism or an attempt
to "belittle" his argument, I assure you that it was merely a request for
clarification.

Relax.

David Haberstich

David Haberstich

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