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Article #183Re: Gov't to take Teale directly to trial; Domm to be tried
From: gassmann
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 1994 22:38
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 1994 22:38
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In article <Cnv4tv.FA5@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>, rjwells@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Justin Wells) writes: > In article <1994Apr03.063141.29853@debug.cuc.ab.ca>, > <Tom@debug.cuc.ab.ca> wrote: > > >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! > > 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. > > (If you wanted to tell people that you believe she pleaded guilty > you should have written: "Karla Homolka pleaded guilty.") Umm, not to quibble or anything, but my Collins English Dictionary gives pleaded, plead (pronounced to rhyme with red), and pled as possible past tense forms of the verb "plead". The original poster did have it right...
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