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   Dallas Hinton to Mike Powell   
   A rule needed :)   
   18 Sep 19 16:29:36   
   
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   CHRS: IBMPC 2   
   Hi Mike -- on Sep 18 2019 at 16:37, you wrote:   
      
   MP> Others have said it is fine.  I think it reads like broken English, like   
   MP> someone wrote it that is not a native speaker.  I would expect a "the" in   
   MP> front of it if she was the only one, and "a" if there might be more than   
   MP> one with the firm.   
      
   I might point out that Dorothy Parker was not a paragon of English writing.   
      
   Dorothy Parker (n‚e Rothschild; August 22, 1893 - June 7, 1967) was an American   
   poet, writer, critic, and satirist based in New York; she was best known for   
   her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.   
   (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Parker)   
      
   She was a founding member of a group called the Algonquin Round Table, joining   
   with Rober Benchley, Franklin Adams, and Alexander Woolcott. In most of their   
   writings, it seems to me that they cared about their words more than about the   
   play/book they were supposed to be reviewing.   
      
   cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquin_Round_Table   
      
      
   Cheers... Dallas   
      
   --- timEd/NT 1.30+   
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