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Old Thu Aug 17, 2006, 09:30pm
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Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle
You wrote "apologize for any inconvenience." You obviously meant "I apologize for any inconvenience." But without the "I" the phrase would properly be interpreted as having the implied subject "you" and would read "you apologize for any inconvenience." Your phrase would then be a directive, which I followed. Of course, it would take a real smart-*** to take it that way. But I am
I was called a wise-*** by my brother-in-law recently, which I took to be a promotion from smart-***.
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