Re: grammar questions (was the whole VP thread)

["Lurker writer" <lurker_writer -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Bill brings up great points. There are too many lazy-*ssed people in the 
world who can't figure out for themselves how to look in their own reference 
books for the right answer to some banal grammatical "problem." We tell our 
clients and customers to RTFM; maybe it's time we start doing the same 
thing.

Instead of asking the very learned and gifted (and busy) members of this 
list such trite questions as "why is a carrot more orange than an orange?" 
FOR PETE'S SAKE, LOOK IT UP YOURSELF FIRST. You may have to stand up from 
your chair to reach for that FrameMaker User Manual, or <insert your 
favorite reference title here>, but it will be worth the warm fuzzy feeling 
you'll get from self-discovery (all "self" words are hyphenated, aren't 
they?)

And search engines...now THERE'S an idea that escapes many WEB users...


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