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|    Dallas Hinton to Mike Powell    |
|    A rule needed :)    |
|    18 Sep 19 16:29:36    |
      MSGID: 1:153/7715.0 d82bed30       REPLY: 705.englisht@1:2320/105 21e7d07c       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+        * Origin: The BandMaster, Vancouver, CANADA (1:153/7715)       SEEN-BY: 1/19 120 123 15/2 16/0 18/0 116/116 120/544 123/0 25 50 130       SEEN-BY: 123/131 150 755 135/300 138/146 153/250 757 7715 154/10 203/0       SEEN-BY: 221/0 1 6 360 227/114 229/354 426 1014 240/1120 2100 5138       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 5853 249/206 317 261/38 280/5003 300/4 317/3 320/119       SEEN-BY: 320/219 322/0 757 342/200 460/58 640/1321 1384 712/848 2454/119       SEEN-BY: 3634/0 12 15 24 27 50       PATH: 153/7715 3634/12 640/1384 221/1 320/219 240/5832 229/426           |
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