Richard ~~ Re yours of 0637, which I take addressed to me, as it fairly closely follows my "OLP [Official Legendary Pedant]" post(& can one, I ask, be a legendary pedant and a real one at the same time? Are not the adjectives mutually exclusive?),

"A REAL pedant would have made use of the alternative structure for clarification purposes." --

Alternative structure to what?

Alternative to what structure?

Clarification of what?

Interested in your use of word 'structure'. When there was this thing that Saussure, Lacan, Derrida, Althusser, Foucault, Luce Irigaray & all them pseuds were pursuing snark-like thru the ringing groves and gardens and forests of Eng Lit back in the 50s-80s, called structuralism, post-structuralism, antedisepoststruc... [cont p 94], I used always to try & read all about it, but would always come away with the conviction that their purpose was to supply answers to questions that nobody had asked, and nobody in right mind would ever even think of asking... So is your comment, which tho not explicitly interrogative gives rise to interrogative response, to be subsumed in this category? & if not, why not?

ANSWER! ANSWER!

~M~