Indeed - late at night and my rugby team was winning as I wrote.
Can't remember the context of the first and the second should be
"...to be SO kind as to..."
My grasp of the finer points of grammar is tenuous at best (refer
serious questions to Messers. Hemy and Barker) but so errors fall
into the category of beetle stamping rather than nit-picking. That's
when I get annoyed.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 25/08/2007, at 11:00 AM, Moose wrote:
> Andrew Fildes wrote:
>> ...As to whether rudeness it indicates...
>>
> Andrew Fildes wrote:
>> ...to be as kind as to to...
> Are these 'Strine usages with which I am unfamiliar?
>
> I wouldn't, of course, even think of commenting on such little
> nits, did
> they not originate with an admitted pedantic nit picker. :-)
>
> Two glitches and one question of usage in so few words, excellent!
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