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Salopian,
It is sensible that some alterations should make a gun out of proof. Even though, I am with you that Rules of Proof are mysterious to many in some respects, including myself.
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Greg, I just read "anymore" in Newsweek. Can't trust those darned journalists!
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If you was readin' Newsweek I suppose you were in the restroom...!
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Salopian, that may have been why he got hung....If I can find one a them dispersions, I'm gonna throw it at my cat..If it aint too heavy..
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As an English teacher, the ability to wield the English language with precision and clarity is something I aspire to (and often fail...).
a trial", and "the condition of having been tested and approved".
RG RG, I really don't mean to cast dispersions but when one announces they are an English teacher and ends that very sentence with a preposition it is a bit of a surprise. I am sure you meant "to which I [you] aspire." And since we are aspiring "to wield the English language with precision and clarity," it might be pointed out that quotation marks (") belong after the commas and periods not before them. Sorry for the post but the fruit was hanging very low. Regards, Jake You noted my caveat "often fail..." I am aware of the punctuation/quotation mark order thing; I've always found the "correct" way counter intuitive though - in my brain, the quote within the sentence/clause finishes, and then the sentence, clause etc finishes. I'd have to check, but I think Burchfield/Fowler has no problem ending a sentence with a preposition. My little boy has no problem with it: "What did you get that book that I didn't want to be read to out of out for?"! I tell my students that once one knows the rules, one can break them for effect. Continue "casting dispersions" Jake: this thread has turned out to be good fun! RG
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Proving is a process. The hoped for end of the proving process is a proof (reasoned argument to the end of expressing the probability that something may be expected to function tomorrow as it does today) Ask any geometer. The provers in this case aren't academicians so they're allowed to consider themselves proofers, or proofmasters, or prooflackeys, or proofies. I believe guns are proved in a certain condition and the proof is valid so long as the gun (barrel) remains in that condition.
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". . . when one announces that they are an English teacher . . ."
Shouldn't that be: "one announce that them am a Engistitcher"?" or "one announces that they is some Engistitchers"?" or "one announces that one is an Engistitcher" ' "? or in the PC mode: "one announces that SHE is an Engistitcher?""#/?
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One might consider DISpersing one's casts and casting one's ASpersions. One might also consider retreating deep into one's large vitreous domicile.
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For what did you get out that book to the reading from which I do not care to listen? Naaah, it's better if stuff just dangles where you can see it!
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Quiet in here! How can 6 or 7 time zones go to chow at the same time?
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