Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:18:46 01/18/00
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On January 18, 2000 at 17:41:42, Jeff Anderson wrote: [snip] >What the hell is wrong with you? I'm pretty sure it was the dangling participle that broke the camel's back. Did you ever see that old "Barney Miller" episode where an English professor went berserk? It seems an advertizement on the bus called pickles, "The crun-crun-crunchiest" which clearly is not a real word. As you can well imagine, butchery of the King's good English could easily push someone over the edge. Someone once used the definite article in a sentence when it clearly should have been an *indefinite* article and look at the profound effect it had upon me. Perhaps I shall never recover. BTW, FTSI: ;-)
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