On 9/1/2010 8:30 AM, Darren New wrote:
> Phil Cook v2 wrote:
>> Or to be precise "To whom did you give it?" :-)
>
> Except that's a contortion to avoid putting a preposition at the end of
> a sentence that isn't problematic to put at the end of a sentence.
>
You do know that the rule in question was one proposed by one man, for 
no good reason, and for a similar lack of logic or purpose, then 
adopted? It was never part of the original English until then, and makes 
about as much sense as reverting to pre-Middle English, where half the 
words we use would require extra vowels, or consonants to spell them, or 
worse, Middle English, where there was a trend to simply remove as many 
vowels are possible.

In short, its a stupid rule, and there is one single fool to blame for 
proposing it at all.

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   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
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       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
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