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On Friday, 2 February 2018 23:44:16 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 20:34:04 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > > > But its a bad habit which I will never get into! |
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> > > |
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> > > Couldn't you have said "…habit that I…" in the fact that you were |
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> > > referencing a specific habit, not just a generic place holder? |
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> > Nope. He said it's a bad habit. Then he said he'll never get into it. |
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> > So 'which' was right; he was merely adding another thought, not |
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> > limiting what he'd said before. |
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> Actually, it was a deliberately poor sentence, in several ways - |
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> channelling my inner Ernie Wise ;-) |
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I be he would have joined sentences with commas too, though I never saw |
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anything of his written. |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |
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