I don't even know what a participle is but can still enjoy the English English language and have a good smile when it is misused or gives a wrong impression. For example, our local evening paper had on it's front page yesterday the story or the fire brigade rescuing a girl from mud, who was 'stuck up to her waist in Telford'. Well I suppose she was... On Wed, 7/16/08, Adrian Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Adrian Stott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [canals-list] Re: Dangling participles (was Trip Report - The Ups & Downs of Going to Saul - Part the Sixth) To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 1:25 PM Brian J Goggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED] ie> wrote: >idiom, which might be regarded as the collective intelligence of the users of >the language Collective something, I agree, but I'm not certain it's intelligence. Adrian . Adrian Stott 07956-299966 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
