Quoting Peter Constable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> > and we're not all experts.
> 
> Gee, we're not?

You are and Michael is. I am a master's candidate in linguistics at a regional
university in the midwest that has no computational linguistics curriculum
whatsoever. My speech act is not declarative. It is a request, as in:

Could the experts on this list please show a little rhetorical restraint? 

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