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With -- as far as I can tell -- no message traffic here for some time, I thought I'd start a little grammar skirmish just to see if anyone is paying attention.
1. Does anybody here (other than me) raise an eyebrow (or even cringe) when the Liberty Mutual Insurance adverts proclaim "You only pay for what you need"? Well, I ask, what else could you do other than "pay" for what you need? Not pay? Well, then, you wouldn't have any insurance, eh? My point is that it was surely the Marketing Group that came up with this incorrectly stated sentence which SHOULD state, "You pay for ONLY what you need."
2. I believe this group should have its own teeshirt for members. My choice can be viewed at https://images.kingtees.shop/teephotos/2019/08/Grammar-police-to-serve-and-correct-shirt.jpg
Finally, yeah, I know, there are "bigger fish to fry" and other minute grammar stuff to bitch about, but this list seems dead lately.
-- Ken in AtlantaWhere it's 37 degrees F and sunny at 10 am on this date
(whoever said it's always hot down here hasn't lived here)
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