My you are precocious. Ellipses, ellipsis. Bah. My worst typos are always homophones. Write, right? I've known the difference since second grade, but I still can't type 'em correctly. Perhaps it's not that it's wrong to point out such silliness, but in doing so you dismiss what is otherwise a meaningful statement. I'm able if not willing to be the butt of a one-liner, but I'd almost always prefer a meaningful response. S. .-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-. : Steven Gabriel -- sgabriel@willamette.edu : :-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-: : "Sitting quietly doing nothing, : : Spring comes and the grass grows by itself." : '-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-'-' On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Scottie Bowman wrote: > > Well, jared, since you INSIST. > ('...should know better than to say something > as precocious (yes, precocious) as "use correct > grammar."...) > > But in what way does the use of the phrase > 'use correct grammar' offer us a demonstration > of premature giftedness? > > It must be an example of the power that Steven > attributes to ambiguity. Perhaps it will one > day achieve the popularity that he also tells us > e-mail has given to the ellipse. ('a symmetrical > closed curve traced by a point moving in a plane > so that the sum of its distances from two other > points is constant () () () () ()') > > Scottie B. > > > >