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   Ross Clark to Jeff Barnett   
   Re: Somewhere came from Somewheres ? ---   
   04 Sep 24 15:21:17   
   
   XPost: alt.test   
   From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   On 4/09/2024 12:41 p.m., Jeff Barnett wrote:   
   > On 9/3/2024 3:45 PM, Ross Clark wrote:   
   >> On 4/09/2024 9:22 a.m., HenHanna wrote:   
   >    
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> You (whoever "you" are) are right.   
   >> I pointed this out a couple of days ago, referring to what I call   
   >> "floating adverbial -s". You may have missed it as a result of your   
   >> incessant cross-posting. (Thunderbird won't let me cross-post.)   
   >> All the words above are (I think) examples of it. (Sometimes with   
   >> extra -t.)   
   >   
   > TB will allow you to cross-post -- see header of this post created with   
   > TB. I'll leave it to you to look up how; I don't want to make it too   
   > easy for idiots who would abuse that capability.   
   >   
   >    
      
   Actually I have no wish to. I used to crosspost sometimes, but now I   
   find the process mostly annoying and confusing -- particularly as   
   practised by HH (who never attributes properly) and by various political   
   idiots who still intrude onto a.u.e. So when TB tells me I can't post   
   something I've written because it's going to two or more newsgroups, I   
   know how to remove all but the one I want.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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