Re: If you are an English instructor please read.

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From: Alan J. Flavell
Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 00:00

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In article <UN6KyAwZqETJ091yn@io.com>, eighner@io.com (Lars Eighner) writes:

>Stand back and I will attempt to feed the sentence through
>the throwback machine, so that it can be properly understood
>by persons over twenty-five years of age.

Damned cheek!  I've understood bogon alerts and indeed been issuing
them myself for quite some time, and I'm more than twice your specified
age.

(No sympathy solicited ;-).

-- 
Alan

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From: flavell@v2.ph.gla.ac.uk (Alan J. Flavell)
Subject: Re: If you are an English instructor please read.
Date: 1996/09/07
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