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Bible Note: Brad, thanks so much for your apt follow-up thoughts to my original treatise lobbying for the exercise of renewed efforts to bring clearer and more legible prose to the pages of this forum. While it is a fact clearly evident that not every user of the forum is a scholar of the King's English nor is everyone gifted with the art of turning a phrase with the consummate skill of a Jane Austen, a Charles Dickens, a Milton or a Shakespeare, I submit without reservation that almost every participant could, with determination and hard work, do better than he has done, with the happy result that our common interests would be better served when, as a direct result of clearer communication, we should see a decrease in the confusion, misunderstanding and verbal combativeness that so often issues from potentially good ideas clothed in extremely faulty diction. Spell-checkers and other electronic aids may be of some assistance, but these devices are by no means a cure-all. There is no royal road to learning how to express oneself by the use of the written word, and it is my firm conviction that anyone who aspires to do so should make every effort to improve his language skills. There is no earthly reason not to. --Hank |