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   PID: JamNNTPd/Cygwin32 1.3 20190208   
   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   TZUTC: 0300   
   TID: hpt/w32-mvc 1.9.0-cur 2019-01-08   
   Ardith Hinton:   
      
   AH> IMHO  what  he's suggesting is that if you don't want to   
   AH> overuse the verb "speak" you  could  correctly  say  "he   
   AH> should not (do so)" or "he ought not to (do so)".  :-)   
      
   No, I proposed only the following amendment:   
      
     When  a  person is in a company of friends he never speaks   
     formally.  And he should not, [or] And he ought not to.   
      
   and commented on the impropriety of using `to' in place of a   
   verb  from  the viewpoint of common sense and general logic.   
   By the way, repetition is not always cacophonic[1].   It  is   
   even recognised as a figure of speech!   
      
   Now  that  have read it again, I think that "the company" is   
   much better than "a company" (of friends).   
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   1. as an antonym of `epiphonic'.   
      
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