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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        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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