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   Questor to All   
   Re: A language/grammer question, I THINK   
   24 Nov 20 18:16:34   
   
   From: usenet@only.tnx   
      
   On Tue, 24 Nov 2020 03:04:16 -0800 (PST), Roger House <61rroger@gmail.com>   
   wrote:   
   >My smartphone has a news feature.  I was briefly looking at a news story fr=   
   >om Breitbart news about some stuff that Fox news host Laura Ingraham said o=   
   >n her show.  At one point, it says/shows, (for lack of a better way of sayi=   
   >ng it), and this next little bit is a direct quote from the news piece:  "[=   
   >U]nless the legal situation changes in a dramatic and unlikely manner, Joe =   
   >Biden will be inaugurated on January 20."  There more stuff before and afte=   
   >r the part that I quoted, but my question is only about something in the qu=   
   >oted part.  Here's my question.  Why is the "U" in the word unless in brack=   
   >ets and what is the point of putting it in the brackets?  The "U" is in bra=   
   >ckets in the printed news piece, I didn't do it only by myself.  Thanks eve=   
   >ryone in advance!   
      
   The big problem is why are you reading a right-wing nutjob propaganda site   
   like Breitfart?  That stuff is going to rot your mind, if it hasn't already.    
   Of   
   course, Fox is little better.   
      
   The second problem is using Goo-goo groups [spit] to post to Usenet, with its   
   execrable "flowed text" format.  (I've left it unchanged above.)  Doesn't   
   anyone   
   believe in line breaks anymore?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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