Slightly OT: Must Linux buy its way onto the desktop?
Rickey Moore
wayward4now at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 13 21:41:49 UTC 2006
--- Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Rickey Moore wrote:
> >
> > --- Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Corporations *are* human beings, working in concert.
> >
> >
> > I'd say I agree, if you remove the comma.
> > Corporations *are* human beings working in concert.
> >
> > as opposed to:
> >
> > Corporations *are* human beings,
> > working in concert.
>
> Umm, commas have many uses, including among them the indication
> of a pause in speech.
>
> Perhaps you would have liked
>
> Corporations *are* human beings... working in concert.
> Or
> Corporations *are* human beings just working in concert.
>
Yeah, the pause threw me, although the phrase was true. I like the
second one, ...just working in concert. The word 'just' tends to less
demonize the notions of corporations among the fearful. :) Ric
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