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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Grammer Quiz (Try it if you dare!)
Message-ID: <1003@ihuxq.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 01:01:30 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 15 01:01:30 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jun-84 04:27:42 EDT
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>> 	Are the following pronoun references correct?

>> 	"The team won its first game tonight. Afterwards, they
>> 	went out to cellebrate."...

>> 	Please don't flame about the mild nature of this entry. I could
>> 	have very easily substituted the appropriate flame vocabulary:

>> 		"Ok, All you egg-sucking, self-proclaimed hackers who 
>>  		think they have something to say, this is your first
>> 		grammer lesson since grade school. Listen up and learn
>> 		to communicate."

>> 	to conform to standards, but I choose the calm approach. Just
>> 	consider it a flame that I put you to the test with a simple
>> 	grammer construct and expect you to fail.

I admire this guy's chutzpah.  He can spell neither "grammar" nor
"celebrate," but expects me to believe that he knows English grammar
inside-out.  And while I'm at it, "OK, all you egg-sucking, self-
proclaimed hackers who think *YOU* have something to say" is preferred
over "...THEY have something to say" since it maintains the second-
person frame of reference.

If the poser of this question really does know the answer, it can
only be something he memorized--and I'll give him the benefit of
the doubt here--a very long time ago.
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