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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Today’s dilemma, dear Readers, is whether to die laughing, or from the abject horror of these grammatic fauxs-pas:

This doesn't parse easily. It's the comma following "laughing[,]" mixed with the unequal joining.

  1. die [from] laughing (or laughter)
  2. [die] from abject horror

29 posted on 07/18/2018 2:30:41 PM PDT by nonsporting
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To: nonsporting

I couldn’t figure it out, either.


34 posted on 07/18/2018 7:24:24 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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