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   Hi, Anton!  Recently you wrote in a message to 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)".  :-)   
      
   AS> No, I proposed only the following amendment:   
      
   AS>   When  a  person is in a company of friends he never speaks   
   AS> formally.  And he should not, [or] And he ought not to.   
      
      
      
             Uh-huh.  But you also gave another example... "I love you better than   
    I do myself"... in which the verb "do" replaces the verb "love".  Prior to   
   that you & Alexander had been discussing which words could be left out under   
   certain circumstances.  I was trying to cover both at once by using parentheses   
    to show that the use of "do so" or possibly "do that" is optional in my   
   rendition.  :-)   
      
      
      
      
   version.   
   get were discussing since we had   
      
      
      
      
      
      
   AS> and commented on the impropriety of using `to' in place of a verb   
   AS> from  the viewpoint of common sense and general logic. By the way,   
   AS> repetition is not always cacophonic[1].   It  is even recognised as   
   AS> a figure of speech!   
      
   AS> Now  that  have read it again, I think that "the company" is much   
   AS> better than "a company" (of friends).   
   AS> ____________________   
   AS> 1. as an antonym of `epiphonic'.   
      
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