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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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> > 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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Neil Bothwick |
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"Everything takes longer than expected, even when you take |
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into account Hoffstead's Law." - Hoffstead's Law |
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