OOPS

[Peter Montgomery <MONTGOMERY -at- CAMINS -dot- CAMOSUN -dot- BC -dot- CA>]

A note received directly from a list parseticipant (er, parsipitant?):

>>Why am I thinking that only in a country some of who's founders
>>came across in the Mayflower, who a person find it so necessary
>>(and I empathise with that necessity) to be so defensive.

>     I'll give you 10 v-bucks if you can parse this sentence as
>     written.

O parse on it.
I think I'll parse on that offer.
My apologies. I was asleep at the time. Let's try:

I hate it when people have to get so defensive in casual
conversation. My perception is that it happens a whole lot
more in US discourse, than in Canadian discourse. I'm wonder-
ing if it relates to that puritanical streak in US culture
that a US professor once lectured on quite brilliantly. He
did so in a US literature course which he was giving,
while dodging the draft during the Vietnam War because of
his puritanical beliefs.

I will now write 100 times: I will not try to think while I'm asleep
(but I won't write it here).

The original sentence should have read:

Why am I thinking that only in a country some of whose founders
came across in the Mayflower, would a person find it so necessary
(and I empathise with that necessity) to be so defensive.

I will also write that out 100 times.

And I won't be defensive about it, 'cause I'm guilty as sin.

(I may at some point, however, expound on how electronic
technology is turning us all into verbal spastics.)

Peter
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