Re: [ba-poker] grammar (was: RGPM: Moderator Selection - Call for Volunteers)

["Ed Fernandez" <edf(deleted the rest)>]

This discussion is freaking me out.  I feel like I'm back in Mrs. 
Humphrey's 8th grade English class. I took drugs for years to wipe out 
those memories...please, can we get back to poker content before I have 
to bring back the drugs and the eight tracks.

Ed

On Mar 19, 2004, at 5:11 PM, Michael Wiesenberg wrote:

> At 04:48 PM on Friday, 3/19/2004 -0800, David S. Heller wrote:
> > Andy:  You're a brilliant guy, and I love you, man.  But...
> >
> > I write for a living.  I'm right, the dinosaurs are wrong, and 
> > normally you
> > don't use a preposition to end a sentence with.  <Note use of irony 
> > there>
> > It leads to exactly this kind of awkward, funny sounding phrase that 
> > just
> > needs to be repaired.  You can use a preposition to end a sentence 
> > when it
> > is absolutely necessary.  As Churchill once observed:  "That is the 
> > kind of
> > pedantry up with which I shall not put."
>
> I write for a living too, and there's a difference between what is 
> acceptable in spoken language and written.  (And what is distributed 
> in mailing lists and appears on many Web sites fits into a third, 
> often illiterate, category.)