On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 08:56 +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 01:17:58AM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 March 2010 17:33:13 Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote:
> > 
> > > usually always look to see if ...
> > 
> > Sorry, but I'm having terrible trouble parsing this expression.
>  
> Haha, no wonder. In the initial reply I had written that I left my
> brain somewhere. I think that illustrates it quite well :P

I don't see any need for excuses, it sounds like fine common English to
me, with the possible exception of a run-on "if".

The full sentence was "I usually always look to see if Dale has been
involved in a thread if HAL is mentioned"

-- 
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

In war, truth is the first casualty.
                -- U Thant


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