On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 6:07 AM, Curt <cu...@free.fr> wrote: > On 2018-03-21, deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Richard Hector wrote: > > > >> Where 'checked' was presumably the debilitate one :-) > > > > true, sorry - even double checking fails sometime :D > > > > > > When Norman Mailer's Harlot's Ghost was published it contained a > grammatical error in the first sentence (and one can only imagine how > many human minds proof-read the thing before it went to press): > > Here it is: > > "On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through the fog along > the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the > March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe > who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago." > > The error was subsequently corrected. > > So take heart. >
a lot of the old grammatical categories have died out; the "dangling modifier" error has gone the way of the "split infinitive". f. > > > > -- > Bah, the latest news, the latest news is not the last. > Samuel Beckett > >
