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To: Dayuhan who wrote (2191)	3/21/1999 10:09:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Respond to of 4711

Egypt, I am dying, dying.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (2191)	3/22/1999 12:41:00 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

Well now, aren't you judging hastily? Who's to say the writer was not describing a proprietary stock selection system with which he has had much experience, becoming thereby a 'seasoned veteran' in this method, which may indeed be to add up his prepositions before drawing conclusions. (There are, in the paragraph you quote, five of them to contribute to the analytical model: to, on, to, up, and before. He didn't indicate whether his system counts each use of a particular preposition, or only the first, to arrive at a total, but intuitively I believe the answer is that yes, it does; and so I have counted five.) Please don't point out that one of the words I have counted as a preposition in this paragraph is used, here, as an adverb. This is an analytic tool for making investment decisions, not a grammar text. For heaven's sake.