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Old 08-29-2005, 03:16 AM
Maddenboy Maddenboy is offline
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Default Re: I have a problem

. . . until THEY SPELL (s/b "he spells") the word wrong . . . .

A grammar snob would know that one uses "they" to talk about a group of people, but "he" or "she" to talk about an individual person. You discuss "a" person who somehow becomes multiple people later in the same sentence.

Same for . . . reassesses my opinion of THEM (s/b "him"), and twice more in that same sentence.

Oddly, in your next paragraph, you get it corrected. Now THAT's pretty "twisted."

And I really dislike all the flame posts on 2+2, but you did ask for this one. Almost in a masochistic way.
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