The perils of "search & replace" in documentation.

"ehsjr" wrote

It tolls for thee, silly.

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Would you care to explain the basis of your hypercorrection? I understand that you might have some difficulty, since you are without any doubt completely wrong.

You missplet "trolls".

I don't know, which do you think is uncalled for? We usually end questions with question marks (or interrobangs) around here, by the way. And just how many ways can it appear that Kevin has called you "idiot," anyway?

"Adam Funk" wrote

Uh, no. That was a reference to a Steinbeck novel.

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Nice try, but I fear you might need to be less subtle.

All of them.

Matthew

Hi, Glenn. Are you still singing? We visited Russia last summer, but didn't get to Georgia.

The only question in what you quoted has a question mark.

Good question. I don't know the answer.

Bill

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Around here, that's fightin talk.

Thanks, Don

"whomsoever"?

Dave

Because someone has to:

"One. Two. Threeee. ... Three!"

Dave "sometimes I do wish it wasn't my turn in the platen though" DeLaney

Wrong again. The relative pronoun is in the nominative (or subjective) case, and therefore "whoever", because it's the subject (or predicate nominative, if you think of the clause as inverted) of the dependent clause in which it appears: "whoever that plural you might be." The entire clause is a noun clause in apposition to (or modifying) "all of you".

The general rule, of which this is an instance, is that the relative pronoun "who" takes its case form from the clause in which it appears, without regard to how that clause is used in the sentence as a whole. Hence:

1. Give it to whoever finishes first.

but

1. Give it to whomever you select.

Lots of people use "whoever" in the second example, even though it's technically incorrect, but there's no justification (aside from ignorance) for "whoever" in the first.

Now I'm wrong. It's "whomever" "whomever" "whomever" in the first that is inexcusable. Pardon me while I moisten a noodle for some self-flagellation.

Total bullshit, but Kevin and his troll friends and of course his afro wife will love it. I can see why your name has "Moron" in it.

This is the modern laser printed world.

There are no platens ("We don' need no stinking platens!").

The corona wire can sting a bit at times, however.

Brilliant. Including the sig, which got snipped... :-]

Al Denté

Total bullshit, but Kevin and his troll friends and of course his afro wife will love it. I can see why your name has "Moron" in it.

Okay, so "whomsnoever". Got it.

Dave