🚀 go-pugleaf

rjwells@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Justin Wells) writes:

> >Speaking of which, my new line of T-shirts are now being silk-screened:
> >
> >	Karla
> >	Homolka
> >	Plead
> >	Guilty (tm)
> >
> >Available in a wide-variety of sizes and colours.
  
> Saved by illiteracy!

AAEEII!!  =0
 
> The advantage of such a t-shirt is that "plead" is a present tense
> verb, and so your statemet is a direct address imperative telling Karla 
> what you think she should do: "Karla, plead guilty!" -- the comma
> marking direct address is the only way to make this statement correct
> given the tense of the verb "plead".  In other words you haven't
> broken the ban, although you were trying hard.

You know, I was wonderin' about that myself...

> (If you wanted to tell people that you believe she pleaded guilty
> you should have written: "Karla Homolka pleaded guilty.")

Better yet, "Karla Homolka Pled Guilty (tm)"  <--love that "tm"  =)

> Justin Wells
>   Rhetoric & Professional Writing, joint Honours with Mathematics
> Justin Wells  (rjwells@uwaterloo.ca, stem@io.org, stem@sizone.pci.on.ca)

In any case, the T-shirts look pretty good, tense errors and all.  If the 
sales go well, there should a "Karla Homolka Plaid Guilty (tm)" T-shirt 
next month (complete with a tartan pattern).

			///Rev.Cmdr.Tom, SLACK STATION ZEBRA (tm)///