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Subject:Re: shrinking women From:Pat Gantt <pagantt -at- POSTOFFICE -dot- WORLDNET -dot- ATT -dot- NET> Date:Wed, 24 Sep 1997 13:52:11 -0500
I stands corrected says Ruby Beeegonia!
OK lousy Anglitch sorry.
Actually both men and women shrink in stature
and frontal lobeness <I know, I know.. no
sech word> too as we all age.
Aging is not pretty but it is a great leveler!
Now that U know who is monitoring let me
make the giant logic leap and turn this
into a somewhat on-topic post.
Where is logic lodged? The frontal
lobes. Logic is the most important
(IMHO) single attribute that makes
a truely wonderful tech. writer into
a great one.
Step-by-step by tiny logical steps.
No spare words such as prepositions
or articles. Clean, clear crisp.
> Speaking of threads about apostrophes and other goodies...
>
> The end of your first sentence is wanting an apostrophe (contemporaries'
> ), to make it possessive.
> ...unless, of course, you really did mean to say that men's frontal
> lobes shrink a full third faster than women shrink.
<very big sigh> See above for mea
I stands corrected, but I still stand.
--
Best Regards, Pat
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*~Electronic Media Design & Support~*
The University of Tennessee
M.S., Human Resource Development
Persn'l email: pagantt -at- worldnet -dot- att -dot- net
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