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08-23-2006, 02:19 PM
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#2806
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Grammar question
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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Please no wise-ass comments -- looking for a serious answer here.
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who is arguing for a)?
If your boss, then a is right. Otherwise b.
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08-23-2006, 02:21 PM
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#2807
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Flyover land
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Grammar question
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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Which is correct:
a) We write to request that your client enters into certain stipulations . . . and stipulates to the following
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b) We write to request that your client enter into certain stipulations . . . and stipulate to the following
Please no wise-ass comments -- looking for a serious answer here.
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it would be a clearer parallel and obvious if you said ". . . and to stipulate to the following" ("we write to request X and to stipulate Y")
Last edited by ltl/fb; 08-23-2006 at 02:23 PM..
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08-23-2006, 02:22 PM
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#2808
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Flyover land
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Doomed to spinsterhood
It seems like as long as he makes more money than you, it's not a problem for you to have a career. But maybe I missed the part where it explains how him making more money makes someone unhappy. |
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08-23-2006, 02:24 PM
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#2809
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Steaming Hot
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Giving a three hour blowjob
Posts: 8,220
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GRR
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Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
JWs can drink, as long as it's not a birthday party or something. We had a JW secretary at my old firm; she was actually fun to have a drink with at all-firm events.
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I bartended a JV wedding reception once. Copious, and I mean copious amounts of wine were drunk. But just wine.
And on another note, even though any JV that's ever come to my door has been whiter than me (hi ppnyc!), this wedding reception was the United Nations. I think there was a representative there from every nationality. Not your average wedding reception.
I don't think I heard any conversations about religion at all. And, to top it all off, they were great tippers! So my view on JVs is pretty positive. |
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08-23-2006, 02:24 PM
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#2810
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I am beyond a rank!
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Glasgow, natch.
Posts: 2,807
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GRR
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Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
See now, if the JW in question had been Prince, this story could have been a really good story.
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True story: I was playing basketball in the LA Lawyers' League recently. We were winning our game handily in the second half. I had the ball at the top of the key, and with no forewarning, called out "Computer Blue." One guy on my team started laughing, the rest looked at me like I was an idiot (or ignored me).
Game, blouses. |
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08-23-2006, 02:25 PM
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#2811
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WacKtose Intolerant
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: PenskeWorld
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Grammar question
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Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
who is arguing for a)?
If your boss, then a is right. Otherwise b.
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2. I once had a paralegal who argued an obscure rule of grammar with me. We discussed it and I dismissed his PoV. A few weeks later he sent me a memo documenting that he was correct.
Shortly thereafter he was fired.
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I wish more people was alive like me
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08-23-2006, 02:27 PM
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#2812
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I am beyond a rank!
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Glasgow, natch.
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GRR
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Originally posted by andViolins
Hey man, throw her a bone. She had some really nice religious tracts.
aV
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I prefer the great big tracts of land.
Yes, I was that kid in HS, or at least, junior high. |
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08-23-2006, 02:29 PM
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#2813
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: In Spheres, Scissoring Heather Locklear
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The Not Bob phone just rang -- apparently, I have to depose Fugee next week.
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Originally posted by Sparklehorse
From glancing at the Amazon reviews, it looks like Weir's book focuses more on the personal/romantic life of Elizabeth. Is that accurate? Part of what I really like about Jenkins's book was that I really got a feel for the great personal sacrifice Elizabeth made to be queen. Kind of like she was a modern-day spinster GA.
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Yes, I'd say you are correct, to the extent Elizabeth used her personal life to get what she wanted politically. Specifically, her marriage negotiations which she probably knew were bogus and she just used them to keep a particular suitor's country in line, prevent a war with it, etc. It's amazing she was able to keep everyone going right up until menopause age, when people finally gave up on the idea of an heir. Also, a lot of cool stuff about how the royal court would pick up and leave to hold court elsewhere when things got too stinky -- no plumbing.
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08-23-2006, 02:34 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Rose City 'til I Die
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Huh
So this go 'round, Survivor will start off with 4 tribes divided by race.
Anybody think this is a good idea?
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Drinking gin from a jam jar.
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08-23-2006, 02:38 PM
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#2815
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Wild Rumpus Facilitator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: In a teeny, tiny, little office
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We all live in a yellow submarine.
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Originally posted by patentparanyc
It's okay. I'm pretty stupid and chubby and NotPretty. No worries, at the end of the day.
***and psst, I do some tax work too.
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The only one of those characteristics I care about is your relative stupidity.
And Circular 230 hasn't brought in the business I had hoped it would. It appears that when reputational issues are the KPI for the prospect, that competition on price point has little influence.
And pssst, filing 8832s isn't really doing tax work.
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08-23-2006, 02:42 PM
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#2816
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Moderator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Pop goes the chupacabra
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Huh
Quote:
Originally posted by Oliver_Wendell_Ramone
So this go 'round, Survivor will start off with 4 tribes divided by race.
Anybody think this is a good idea?
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Depends. Is this season's location Alcatraz?
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08-23-2006, 02:48 PM
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#2817
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Wild Rumpus Facilitator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: In a teeny, tiny, little office
Posts: 14,167
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Thanks
Quote:
Originally posted by Not Bob
Jealousy doesn't become you, Ollie.
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It has, however, become his primary posting mode.
I guess you should have followed the winery chick after all, Ollie.
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08-23-2006, 02:48 PM
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#2818
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[intentionally omitted]
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: NYC
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GRR
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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
A former JW wrote a story a year ago in the NYT sunday Magazine end page. i forget the word, but he left the Church, say it was "Lapsed", anyway when they come to his door he tells the JWs he is this. They run- guys who leave are the devil. Try it.
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Disfellowshipped. And by rule, any JW is not allowed to speak to someone who has been disfellowshipped. That's why it works.
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08-23-2006, 02:52 PM
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#2819
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Wild Rumpus Facilitator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: In a teeny, tiny, little office
Posts: 14,167
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We all live in a yellow submarine.
Quote:
Originally posted by Penske_Account
Isn't it an addendum to Das Kapital?
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No, it's a "we cut the rich folks taxes, so now we gotta make sure the little millionaires and the bottom half of the Fortune 500 pay their fair share, too," kinda thing.
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08-23-2006, 02:53 PM
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#2820
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Wild Rumpus Facilitator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: In a teeny, tiny, little office
Posts: 14,167
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Grammar question
Quote:
Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Which is correct:
a) We write to request that your client enters into certain stipulations . . . and stipulates to the following
or
b) We write to request that your client enter into certain stipulations . . . and stipulate to the following
Please no wise-ass comments -- looking for a serious answer here.
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He enters
They enter
The verb follows the subject, not the object.
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