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Antonio Marques wrote:

> Bertel Lund Hansen <gadekryds@lundhansen.dk> wrote:
>> jerryfriedman wrote:
>> 
>>> By the way, Steve isn't the only participant in a.u.e. who doesn't
>>> notice Subject lines.
>> 
>> Certainly not.
>> 
>>> I don't know how that happens,
>> 
>> Automatically. And I hate it if I am 'forced' to quote something that
>> appears only in the subject line.
>> 

> Never mind that in the bit that Steve quoted to flippantly inquire on what
> 'that' meant, it was quite explicitly said 'dither'.

The "it" there isn't idiomatic (though English has similar constructions that
do have an "it").  You could write "'dither' was quite explicitly said."
I might write something like "the meaning was explicitly 'dither'."

Also, "on" would be better as "about", or better still deleted, in my
opinion.

> Of course, that type of incivility is part of the reason why historically
> (a number of) sci.langers hold aueers (by default) in some measure of
> contempt.

I have my prejudices, but holding the posters in a newsgroup in any
measure of contempt by default hasn't occurred to me.

-- 
Jerry Friedman