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To: Edwarda who wrote (2239)	3/25/1999 6:51:00 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) of 4711

Well, my insomniac's sojourn has led me here to find several of my favorite people! I loved this thread until I ran out of time to keep up with it in addition to trading. It always led me on fascinating, but time-consuming paths through the bookshelves. Pondering the abstract noun business and probably apropos of nothing: The British say "in hospital" and "at university", where Americans use articles to precede these. Moutaineering seems to be in a different class than resourcefulness-like scubadiving, skiing, boxing. Action nouns? Regarding the abstracts cited that then were made specific by adding the article: Is it really literary license to say a profound sadness? I think it's legitimate usage, not license, a specific objectifying of an abstract, as in finding one (a) love on which to focus all that generalized passion. And don't we add an article to dust when we say "sweep the dust from under the bed"? Singular of dust--a dust mote? I'm putting myself to sleep. Sleep. Think I'll have a sleep.

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