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User Name	Thread Name	Subject	Posted
GUEST,Tam	BS: OBIT: Farewell to a GUEST (55* d)	RE: BS: OBIT: Farewell to a GUEST	16 Jul 02
Just a comment on Nigel's parsing of GUEST's post. "to" instead of "too" could be simply construed as a typo. Nigel resolves "Never been to keen on bad punctuation and grammar" into "(I've) never been too keen on bad punctuation; and (I've) never been too keen on grammar." The English language allows for "I've" to be understood, the semi-colon is unnecessary after the "and" conjunction and the figure-of-speech zeugma (or syllepsis) allows the qualifier "bad" to relate to all objective nouns. It's a funny old language, ain't it!

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