Messing with Texas

On Feb 8, 2:47 pm, GBinNC <GBi...@XgmailX.com> wrote:
> On 8 Feb 2007 12:22:33 -0800, "Yukon" <l...@atlas.cz> wrote:
>
> >On Feb 7, 11:23 am, "bruce" <bruce.sn...@> wrote:
>
> >> And the best part of finding this type of mistake is that it is exactly the
> >> same mistake Frank corrected. Ah, the irony. <g>
>
> >> Bruce
>
> >Glad somebody picked up on it y
>
> Not to add to the confusion, but I believe the "missing comma" Frank was
> referring to may have been in a different place. Am I wrong?
>
> In the original post, you wrote "I am an American now who served in the
> US Armed Forces, who married and worked for the US Government."
>
> I believe Frank meant (correctly) that a comma after "married" would
> have changed the meaning and removed the ambiguity. (I would also have
> left out the "who" before "married" because it interferes with the
> parallel structure of the series.)
>
> If this is NOT what Frank meant, then I hereby state and mean it <g>.
>
> GB in NC

I agree professor! It was not a well-formed sentence to begin with.
I should do better job at proof-reading my posts, but I get sloppy.
Most of the time I just type away and post. No spell checker, no
nothing and it shows. Oh well.

On Feb 8, 2:47 pm, GBinNC <GBi...@XgmailX.com> wrote:
> On 8 Feb 2007 12:22:33 -0800, "Yukon" <l...@atlas.cz> wrote:
>
> >On Feb 7, 11:23 am, "bruce" <bruce.sn...@> wrote:
>
> >> And the best part of finding this type of mistake is that it is exactly the
> >> same mistake Frank corrected. Ah, the irony. <g>
>
> >> Bruce
>
> >Glad somebody picked up on it y
>
> Not to add to the confusion, but I believe the "missing comma" Frank was
> referring to may have been in a different place. Am I wrong?
>
> In the original post, you wrote "I am an American now who served in the
> US Armed Forces, who married and worked for the US Government."
>
> I believe Frank meant (correctly) that a comma after "married" would
> have changed the meaning and removed the ambiguity. (I would also have
> left out the "who" before "married" because it interferes with the
> parallel structure of the series.)
>
> If this is NOT what Frank meant, then I hereby state and mean it <g>.
>
> GB in NC

I agree professor! It was not a well-formed sentence to begin with.
I should do better job at proof-reading my posts, but I get sloppy.
Most of the time I just type away and post. No spell checker, no
nothing and it shows. Oh well.

On Feb 9, 8:56 am, "David The Hamster Malone" <mal...@ca.ibm.com>
wrote:
> On Feb 9, 3:06 am, "Yukon" <l...@atlas.cz> wrote:
>
> > I agree professor! It was not a well-formed sentence to begin with.
> > I should do better job at proof-reading my posts, but I get sloppy.
> > Most of the time I just type away and post. No spell checker, no
> > nothing and it shows. Oh well.
>
> If I were you (and you should be so lucky) my first priority would be
> to work on only sending them only once.... <g>
>
> David "The annoying Hamster" Malone

It happens to the best of us. It won't have any permanent effects on
you like radiation, don't worry. :-) Not worth commenting on. y

On Feb 9, 3:40 pm, "Yukon" <l...@atlas.cz> wrote:

> It happens to the best of us.

Yes... it happened to me once... :-)

David "The Hamster" Malone