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Old Mon Feb 28, 2005, 03:56pm
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Re: Re: Slip-sliding away, the language

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Originally posted by assignmentmaker
"three man crew, two of which"

Humor me. " . . . two of whom . . . "
Who cares...

Brave, but foolhardy. Signals are a big component of comprehensibility. Strip them out and the noise in the channel goes up. Eventually (if not already) you can't think.
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