Ok then, just another way that we're different.
________________________________ From: "authfri...@yahoo.com" <authfri...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 2:18 PM Subject: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Spirit Guided Lucid Dreaming Everybody thinks much faster than they type. I would not be able to leave out a "the" without having made a conscious decision to do so. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: I think it's more because I think so much faster than I type. It's not a conscious decision. ________________________________ From: "authfriend@..." <authfriend@...> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 2:06 PM Subject: RE: Re: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Spirit Guided Lucid Dreaming I see. I don't know anybody else who does that. Is it because you're such a slow typist that four keystrokes would take so long that you wouldn't be able to finish what you had to say? How do you decide which "the" to leave out? --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > >I leave it out when it doesn't seem necessary and I'm rushing. > > > > > > >________________________________ > From: "authfriend@..." <authfriend@...> >To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 1:32 PM >Subject: RE: Re: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Spirit Guided Lucid Dreaming > > > > >As you know, Share, you are being disingenuous to say my question is >disingenuous, And you know exactly what I'm asking about and why: You do often >leave out the definite article. > > >Is that what you were taught to do in your grammar course, and sometimes you >just forget and put it in anyway? Or did they teach you to leave it out >sometimes, whenever you felt like it? Or what? > > >Or is leaving out the article just an affectation that you think makes you >look cute and smart? Because it sure doesn't make you look as if you ever >actually took a grammar course. > > > > > >--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: >> >> >>Judy, I think you are asking what you call a disingenuous question. >>Disingenuous because as you can see in my first sentence, in the phrase THE >>possessive case, I sometimes use the definite article. >> >> >> >> >> >> >>________________________________ >> From: "authfriend@..." <authfriend@...> >>To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >>Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 11:58 AM >>Subject: RE: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: Spirit Guided Lucid Dreaming >> >> >> >> >>Did this grammar course teach you to leave out the definite article? >> >> >> >>--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>Another pet peeve: a person's avoiding the possessive case before a gerund >>>(-: >>>One of my favorite courses in college was an advanced grammar course. The >>>errors I see now even on places like HuffPost amaze me. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>________________________________ >>> From: "s3raphita@..." <s3raphita@...> >>>To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com >>>Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 11:19 AM >>>Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: Spirit Guided Lucid Dreaming >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>Pet peeve of mine also. And, like you, I hit the Send key just as I notice >>>I've missed or added '. >>> >>> >>>Yes, I wonder if the interest in lucid dreams and the like isn't demon Mara >>>up to his old tricks making mundane things seem alluring. >>> >>> >>> >>>--- In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>Let dream state take its natural course I say. Pet peeve of mine with >>>>people mix up it's and its! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> > >
