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johnslat
Joined: 21 Jan 2003
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Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
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Dear stillnosheep,
Oh, the Wall Street Journal - oh, in that case, considering how accurate it's been on financial matters. who am I to dispute it?
And as far as "less than" being used with non-countables while fewer than should be used with countable, well, heck, that depends on how much money you have.
Grammar ALWAYS depends on how powerful you are.
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stillnosheep
Joined: 01 Mar 2004
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Location: eslcafe
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2009 11:26 pm Post subject: |
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Dear John,
I was objecting to the "yet" - in "I have read less than three books on ufo's yet" - I missed the "less than".
Oh yes, grammar depends upon where you come from and I guess "as of yet" must be acceptable Americanish in New Mexico  . Mind you I once had a 'colleague' try to persuade me that "you sing good" was perfectly good Canadian English...
Apart from that, how are you?
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