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To: Janice Shell who wrote (425)	1/3/1998 6:49:00 PM
From: Bill Ulrich	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

&#133because time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. (double-word score for multiple meanings&#151Scrabble, anyone?) -MrB

To: Janice Shell who wrote (425)	1/3/1998 8:41:00 PM
From: Tommaso	Respond to of 4711

"And can anyone explain to ME why there's a huge fly in my bedroom?" No, but this is probably not the right time for you to read Emily Dickinson. Now let's see, how do we make this relevant to this thread so as not to be rebuked. Well, to start with, students are continually marked down (in better institituions of higher learning) for "comma splices"--that is, pauses used as if they were connectives. But our greatest writers do that all the time. Emily Dickinson is a good example, she never worried about pucntuation of any sort, and in saying that I have introduced a comma splice. Katherine Anne Porter used them all the time.

To: Janice Shell who wrote (425)	1/4/1998 12:23:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Respond to of 4711

Janice, Tommaso, The ethical (emotional or expressive)dative, or as Fowler prefers, the ethic dative, is a nearly archaic dative used to bring in the speaker more or less parenthetically. I know that's confusing. Fowler's example: He that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots at a breakfast.... The word "me" amounts to "just fancy" or some other parenthetical expression, according to Fowler. But I don't see why it isn't just plain dative, i.e., "for me". Like, "Buy me a beer." So I guess in answer to Tommaso's question, no, I can't explain it. Jack