>My mother-in-law tells a story about trying to answer a question in school:
>
>MIL: I don't think they ...
>Teacher: If you don't think, don't talk.
>(repeat for several cycles)
>
>Tamar
I guess this was one of those pedantic teachers and she was supposed to say, "I don't imagine...". We once had an English teacher, in grammar school, who used to make us write out "I must not use get, got, or getting" lines any time he saw any of those words in our work. He argued that there was nowhere where they couldn't be replaced by a more appropriate word. This begs the question of why have the word in the language.
Terry
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
