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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of J R
... police are not sighting people who are stopped and found to have
recently expired licenses.
If the police are not sighting them, how are they stopping them -- and
how do they know their licences
are recently expired? ;-)
The police aren't stopping them; they are already stopped, for reasons
not given. How they are discovered to have recently expired licenses is
also unexplained, given that the police are not sighting them.
One might argue that the context of the original statement required
"citing" rather than "sighting", but nowadays how can one be sure?
Perhaps spelling really is unimportant, so long as the correct sound is
represented. And both "sighting" and "citing" (as well as "siting")
represent the same sound....
-jc-
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I disagree, John. Spelling is VERY important in preserving the meaning
of written communications.
SIGHTING, as in seeing, is vastly different than CITING, as in issuing a
citation. :-)
Rick
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