On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 09:52:43AM +0000, Curt wrote:
> On 2014-05-23, Joe Pfeiffer <pfeif...@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > While you are correct, the sentence structure leads one to expect 'box'
> > as a verb and 'ethernets' as a noun.  Speaking as another native
> > speaker, it took me two passes to read what was intended there.
> >
> 
> Speaking as a disgruntled and often restless native, linguistic
> confusion is my norm.

Especially when you have phrases like: "Peter Snell won the walking race
three times running." :)


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who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the 
oppressing." --- Malcolm X


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