Dammit, I was hoping for an interesting grammatical insight there, and what
do I get, another example of Hemy's Law, which says:
"There is *always* another typo".
Based on too many almost-complete proofreadings of others' writings - it is
impossible to proofread one's own work. So I don't bthoer ;-)
--
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Walt Wayman
Sent: 07 June 2005 20:40
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: An English apology ! [OT]
Sigh! I did the unpardonable: I went back and revised part of a sentence
without reading it after I revised it. Originally, it was "There seems to
be employment opportunity for..." and then I changed it to what you see
without renegotiating the necessary agreement between subject and verb.
I'm a passable, fair to middlin' writer, but I'm a really miserable
proofreader. As the old Southern commedian Brother Dave Gardner used to
say, "I may not be grammatical, but, by God, I'm communicable."
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Walt, a question for you. You wrote "There seems to be employment
> opportunities" - what is the subject of the verb, and is it (the
> subject) singular or plural?
>
> Truly, it's a question, despite that it may appear to be baited (it
isn't).
>
> --
> Piers
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Walt Wayman
> Sent: 07 June 2005 20:04
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: An English apology !
>
> Oh, I understand. At least a couple of times a day I have to resist
> the urge to e-mail the Republican Network (a.k.a Fox) or CNN about
> some of the atrocious mistakes in their annoying "crawlers" across the
> bottom of the screen. There seems to be employment opportunities for
> high-school dropouts at both networks. Of course, the folks who watch Fox
probably don't notice.
>
> See the smiley! :-) "Smiley" rhymes with "O'Reilly." Oh, really?
> Factor that in.
>
> Walt
>
> --
> "Anything more than 500 yards from
> the car just isn't photogenic." --
> Edward Weston
>
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