Dear Jon, If we corrected each other's mistakes in English, we'd be here all day.
In fact, ironically enough, your "sentence" correcting Antonio's English is itself incorrect: 1) One should not normally begin a sentence with "But", since "but" is a word used to co-ordinate two parts of a sentence. 2) What you wrote after "But" is not a sentence. The word "If" introduces a subordinate clause, but you have not supplied a main verb later on to make a complete sentence. By putting a full stop (or "period" in American usage) after "another language)", you have ended your sentence prematurely. Instead you should have put a comma. 3) Throughout that passage there is a distinct absence of commas, which are used to separate subordinate clauses from the rest of the sentence. By the way, as far as spelling is concerned, in your other message sent today you meant "abrasive", not "abasive". I'm sorry to be somewhat abrasive, but you did say you preferred to be corrected. Best wishes, Stewart McCoy. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 6:02 AM Subject: A tool for adjustments For those of you who either make lutes, or adjust your own lutes, I've just found a good tool for working on the grooves in the nut. I had been using the little 4" Swedish craftsman's files, and some on this list have suggested strings coated with an abasive. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Antonio Corona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 4:58 AM Subject: Re: vihuela vs guitar > Antonio, > > With Vance I thank you for the description (and the drawings I've seen > confirm them). > > But if you will forgive me for correcting your English (and I only do so as > I prefer to be corrected when I speak in another language). I don't think > you mean "polemic" when describing the vihuela. Polemic means "aggressive" > or "attacking", and can be used as a noun (as in "a polemic") or as an > adjective (as "a polemic speech" - sometimes misused as "a polemical > speech"). You might mean "generic", as in a word that refers to a class of > things - or you might mean something else (but your meaning is clear from > the context). > Best, Jon To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
