Re: Active versus passive (WAS Displays versus Appears-Which One? )

[Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>]

Bruce Byfield wrote:

> 
> As Pope said (Alexander, not Leo, Urban, or any those), a little
> knowledge is a dangerous thing. In this case, the quibbles are often
> used as an ad hominem attack.

Since Dick Margulis has already upbraided me off-list, let me do a
public mea culpa and make a pedantic correction:

Pope said, "a little learning is a dangerous thing."

As a mitigating circumstance, I plead paraphrase.

It's not my period. What else can I say?

>From now on, I'm sticking to Byron and Shelley, and selected
moderns.


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