home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   sci.lang      Natural languages, communication, etc      297,461 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 296,381 of 297,461   
   Jeff Barnett to Ross Clark   
   Re: Somewhere came from Somewheres ? ---   
   03 Sep 24 18:41:07   
   
   XPost: alt.test   
   From: jbb@notatt.com   
      
   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.   
      
      
   --   
   Jeff Barnett   
      
      
   --   
   This email has been checked for viruses by AVG antivirus software.   
   www.avg.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca