[email protected]

Thanks for the reminder of the list rules. Even though I did read along for a
while, I hadn't caught on that "have to" was an "issue" and just chimed in on
the discussion. Now that I know, that's one phrase I can watch out for -- on
this list anyway.

Nance


In a message dated 12/27/2003 9:43:25 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
on 12/26/03 9:25 AM, marbleface@... at marbleface@... wrote:

> The frustration I sense in this thread is coming from a failure to
> acknowledge both meanings and usages.

In casual conversation, yes, we depend on people to catch our meaning
despite the words we use. But this list is different.

So I think it's a lack of understanding that on this list that using words
to precisely represent what we mean is important. (In fact it's so important
that we made it one of our posting suggestions.) When people use words
casually, discussions go on and on (as it did) because people aren't all
getting the same picture of what the situation is like and they can all be
discussing something different.

Joyce


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