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From: rahmeh@uicsl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Ambigious newspaper line
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Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 17:49:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 19 17:49:00 1985
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Nf-From: uicsl.UUCP!rahmeh    Aug 19 16:49:00 1985


>In article <2162@hcradm.UUCP> steve@hcradm.UUCP (Steve Pozgaj) writes:
>>In reference to:
>>
>>>	I was reading the newspaper and I read:
>>
>>>	". . . the shadowy Islamic Jihad terrorist group called
>>>	 the Associated Press of Beirut, . . ."
>>
>>>	. . . Hmm, strange name for a terrorist group!
>>
>>Let's just point out that *if* there were a comma after the
>>word "group", then this would be witty, since it would infer a
>>reflexive participle phrase (I think that's what they're called).
>>This would come across as "the group, called AP of Beirut, ...".
>>
>>However, as it stands, the sentence makes perfect sense: "the
>>group in question placed some form of call to the AP of Beirut".
>>
>>	Steve "Grammar Vigilante" Pozgaj
>>	{decvax!watmath!utzoo}!hcr!steve
>
>
>Flames on.
>
>Why do people insist on continually posting articles nit-picking about
>grammar and spelling?  I'm sure the poster of the original quote knew
>what the sentence actually meant but felt that at a quick glance it
>could be misinterpreted in an amusing way.  We don't need an English
>lesson everytime someone posts an article, at least not in net.jokes.
>Why doesn't someone create net.highschool-english-teacher so that
>all those people on the net who delight in posting follow ups with
>spelling corrections have somewhere to go.
>/* End of text from uicsl:net.jokes */

Flames on.

Why do people insist on continually posting articles nit-picking about
nit-picking about grammar and spelling?  I'm sure the poster of the 
original nit-picking knew what the sentence actually meant but felt that
after a long reflection the sentence could be interpreted in a boring way.
We don't need a nit-picking-about-nit-picking lesson everytime someone posts an
article, at least not in net.jokes.
Why doesn't someone create net.nit-picking-nit-pickers so that
all those people on the net who delight in posting follow ups nit-picking
nit-pickers have somewhere to go.