> From: "Bob W" <[email protected]> > > Someone who shall remain nameless wrote: > >> One incurs no pain when they risk what they do not possess. ;) > > I've noticed this dreadful mangling increasingly recently. When one uses > 'one' as a subject, then one must only use 'one' as the pronoun in the rest > of the phrase. So it should be "One incurs no pain when one risks what one > does not possess." > > So come along, chaps, get with it, or must one get mediaeval on yo' ass? > > B
Yes massa ize noz I not aint got no book lernin lik u. I thought of writing it like you suggest, but that sounded too much like Confucius. I wanted it to sound like it came from America. Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
