Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!ihuxq!ken 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 Article-I.D.: ihuxq.1003 Posted: Fri Jun 15 01:01:30 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Jun-84 04:27:42 EDT References: <428@bunker.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 35 -- >> 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. -- *** *** JE MAINTIENDRAI ***** ***** ****** ****** 14 Jun 84 [26 Prairial An CXCII] ken perlow ***** ***** (312)979-7261 ** ** ** ** ..ihnp4!ihuxq!ken *** ***