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   Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:   
      
   AH>  I often wish I could answer more messages, but there    
   AH>  are only so many hours in a day.  :-Q   
      
   AK>  Probably I could ask more if were a retiree.    
      
      
             Hmm.  I reckon you can find interesting questions more quickly than   
   I can compose appropriate answers.  But when you & others send me scurrying to   
   my reference books & to Uncle Google I'm as happy as a bee in clover...   
   [chuckle].   
      
      
      
   AK>  But it will not be soon. Putin doesn't have money to pay    
   AK>  pensions, and he decided to rise the retirement age. ;-)   
      
      
             There's also been talk of doing likewise in Canada... and for   
   working folk such news may be rather discouraging.  OTOH I've known various   
   people over the years who continued working past the usual retirement age   
   because they soon found out their government pension wasn't enough to live   
   on.  As schoolteachers Dallas & I contributed to a pension plan at work, but   
   depending on what sort of work a person is engaged in there may or may not be   
   such things available.  :-Q   
      
      
             BTW, "rise" is intransitive & "raise" is transitive:   
      
                  The sun rises in the east (or so I was taught).   
      
                  If you'd like to say something, please raise your hand.   
      
      
      
   AK>  In the Russian language we have the rule that no additional    
   AK>  full stop is put at the end of the sentence where the last    
   AK>  word is a shorten word with a period.    
                  |shortened   
      
      
             Ah.  I follow patterns, not rules... but this makes sense to me.    
   The period can do double duty at the end of a sentence.  In E_T we often talk   
   about spelling, punctuation, grammar, etc.  And I use the traditional double   
   space at the end of a sentence to reinforce the idea that I've come to a full   
   stop.  :-)   
      
      
      
   AK>  But if you see logical and correct "etc.?"    
      
      
             On occasion, yes.  When an abbreviation requiring a period is used   
   at the end of a sentence requiring a question mark I wouldn't omit either....    
   :-)   
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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