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From: mpsilvertone@yahoo.com (HarryLime)
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Subject: Re: The Lime sock on Stephan Pickering and NAMBLA
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:55:15 +0000
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On Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:17:41 +0000, W.Dockery wrote:

> HarryLime wrote:
>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>
>>> Jim Senetto sent $50 to Zod, NOT me.
>
> Meaning the money was Zod's not mine.

Wrong.  That is not what the words you are using mean.

WORDS MATTER.  Learn them.

What are you literally saying is that Jim put the money in an envelope,
addressed it to Zod, placed it in the mail, and that the postman
delivered it to Zod.

That is *not* what happened.

Jim took the money, placed it in an envelope and addressed it to *you.* 
Jim then placed the envelope in the mail, and it was delivered by the
postman to *you.*  Jim therefore sent the money to *you.,*

What you mean to say is that Jim sent the money *for* Zod.  He sent it
to *you* for you to give to Zod.

The operative word is "sent."  Sent means addressing and mailing the
envelope to.  It refers to the literal act of mailing the envelope.  You
*send* things through the mail.

Sent has nothing to do with who the money was intended for.  It's the
wrong word.

Understand?

>
>>> Senetto mailed it to me and I handed it to Zod, who spent the money as
>>> he pleased, as was his right.
>>>
>>> Glad to clear the confusion up about that matter, which happened almost
>>> a decade ago.
>>
>> You can't write
>
> I've been writing poetry for over 50 years now, Pendragon/Lime, so you
> can stop repeating that lying misrepresentation now.


No, Donkey, you haven't.

You've been writing what you call "poetry" and what others have called
"unspeakable shit."

But my point here isn't about whether your poetry is any good.  I'm just
pointing out to you that the fact that you can write a poem (or a piece
of unspeakable shit) doesn't have anything to do with your inability to
understand or write intelligible English.

You don't understand basic words like "sent," "repaid," or "gave back
to."  And you constantly use them incorrectly -- and end up saying
things that you don't actually mean.

I realize that it's rather late in your life for you to take such a
step, but you need to study and *learn* how to read and write
*correctly.*

Aren't you tired of going through life with people laughing at your
malaprops?


-- Michael Pendragon

DONKEY: Actually, Zod isn't dead, Cujo.

CUJO: He is from the neck up.

DONKEY: That's debatable.

Do you even realize why the above-quoted exchange is hilarious???

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