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To: Ilaine who wrote (2080)3/3/1999 1:01:00 PM
From: The Philosopher  Respond to of 4711
 
Oh, yeah, Mr. SmartyPants, what would you write?

"I don't think anyone beats lawyers for bad writing?" </i

Yes. Precisely.

I don't believe that your original sentence -- "I don't think anything beats lawyers for bad writing" -- can be read to make "anything" have "bad writing" as its referent. "Bad writing" is the object of a preposition. If you had made lawyers possessive and left out the "for," making the sentence "I don't think anything beats lawyers' bad writing" your construction might have worked as you apparently intended, though it would have been unclear whether the beating was bad or good.

I appeal to E and Edwarda to mediate this dispute! <g>



To: Ilaine who wrote (2080)3/3/1999 1:20:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 4711
 
Hide the cats

>If the cow is already dead, and is a he, their life is already meaningful.<