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Subject: Re: I am not a pronoun

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 20:14:24 07/18/00

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On July 18, 2000 at 22:25:43, Steve Lopez wrote:

>
>Unless of course Pete meant to say:
>
>"'I' is not a pronoun", which of course is dead wrong.
>
>Of course, he may also have meant:
>
>"I is not a pronoun", which would be a true statement but hideously bad grammar.
>

I don't understand why the moderators allow this hideous grammer to remain, the
post should have been deleted before anyone got a chance to read it!!

>And in the quotes above, should the commas be enclosed within the quotation
>marks or be left outside of them?
>

I would go with something like: "'I' is not a pronoun" only because I like the
way it looks.

>And do the moderators even read this message board anymore? If so, do they
>actually give a rat's patootie what gets posted here? And does the patootie in
>question belong to a Canadian lab rat? If so, what's its relative IQ compared to
>other types of Canadian rats? Should I ask Bob Hyatt about this?
>
>Do we even still have moderators?

They are noticeably quieter.

>Are they too moderate with their moderation?
>Or is the moderate moderation moderate enough?

I'm glad someone else noticed the connection between "moderate" and "moderator"
& "moderation".  I can't imagine why nobody figured this out before.  And being
a relatively conservative person, I hate it when people seem to need rules.  Oh,
wait a minute, I can't behave because I don't have enough rules!

And, btw, your post never once mentioned Chess programs, and you may have as a
matter of fact insulted Canadian Rats IQs.  And many of the smarter Canadian
Rats will point out, that they are at least as smart as the average Gray
Squirrel from the USA.  Your post should be moderately moderated.

Pete

>
>*Way* too many questions...
>
>-- Steve Lopez
>
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