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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."
