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Stephen wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:43:06 -0800, Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
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>> Stephen wrote:
>>> On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:29:43 -0800, Darren New <dne### [at] san rr com> wrote:
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>>>> Stephen wrote:
>>>>> "Save for the weather, we would have had fun"?
>>>> That sounds much more British to my ear, actually. Interesting.
>>> Funnily enough I am British :-)
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> I was just being sarky :)
>
>> I gathered that, based on your "pond" references. I mean, it's funny that
>> the British have stricter rules about not starting a sentence with a
>> preposition, and to this American at least, using "save" instead of "but"
>> there gives the sentence a British flavor. Or flavour.
>>
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> Why do you say that "it's funny that the British have stricter rules about not
> starting a sentence with a preposition"?
I put an extra comma in there. It's funny that (you have stricter rules and
it makes you sound more British when you follow them).
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Why is there a chainsaw in DOOM?
There aren't any trees on Mars.
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