Re: "May" vs. "Can"

Subject: Re: "May" vs. "Can"
From: Bob Morse <morse -at- INXPRESS -dot- NET>
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 13:18:42 GMT

Steve Wax <stevewx -at- eskimo -dot- com> wrote:
>Richard jests:
>Recalls another compressed construction for the edification of editors:

> That which that is restrictive is that that which that is
> nonrestrictive is which.

>One of the staff scrawled it on a wall chart, and we all had a fine old time
>scratching our heads until one of us hit on the illuminating punctuation:

> That "which" that is restrictive is "that." That "which" that
> is nonrestrictive is "which."

Utterly unrelated, but reminds me of ...

John where Joe had had had had had had had

And the answer is ...

John, where Joe had had "had," had had "had had."


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