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To: Regulator
Think she has spent the last two years trying to ingratiate herself with the embedded corruptocrats in DC and now has become one of them.

That sentence requires the word "I" at the beginning or the word "Do" at the beginning with a "?" at the end for me at my age to make sense of what you're saying.

Is that an expression of your cognition? Is that an question to which you want an answer?

They mean precisely the opposite.


6 posted on 09/01/2019 7:21:08 AM PDT by nathanbedford (attack, repeat, attack! Bull Halsey)
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To: nathanbedford

You must be joking.

If you want to argue grammar, post to someone else.


17 posted on 09/01/2019 8:29:02 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: nathanbedford
That sentence requires the word "I" at the beginning or the word "Do" at the beginning with a "?" at the end for me at my age to make sense of what you're saying.

Is that an expression of your cognition? Is that an question to which you want an answer?

They mean precisely the opposite.

Too funny (as in "I think your response was too funny").... Why be so "parse"imonious (yep - in order to effect the joke, had to (as in "I had to") bounce it off a word (adjective) that doesn't properly describe the act of going all English teacher on someone the rest of us understood perfectly because we can grasp abstractions of the English language - even in run-on sentences - and even with improper punctuation - and maybe even with a few mispelings.

24 posted on 09/02/2019 2:36:43 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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