"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
1175837.FzVk4xnNcY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 8/15/06 12:59 AM:
>>>>> 'Hadron' has not been in COLA for longer than a couple of weeks (unless he
>>>>> changed E-mail address/+name). S/he doesn't know what proportion of the
>>>>> posts came from inane posters like DFS and tab. He also hasn't seen the
>>>>> volume of FUD that came from Erik Funkenbusch and the gang of Redmond
>>>>> mouthpieces, such as Larry Qualig and some other ex-Microsofties. 'Noise'
>>>>> seems to have been reduced to quite a few MS apologists like Tom Smith and
>>>>> Oliver Wong. I can't speak for anybody else, but I enjoy COLA more than I
>>>>> did last year.
>>>>>
>>>> Did you not enjoy last year much? :)
>>>>
>>> I did actually. Thanks for asking.
>>>
>> My pleasure. I just never would have thought to compare my enjoyment of any
>> Usenet group with my views on an entire year. To each their own.
>>
>> :)
>>
> It's a fair case of misinterpretation. Remove the ambiguity by replacing the
> word "did" with something explicit like "enjoy COLA", i.e. "I can't speak for
> anybody else, but I enjoy COLA more than I enjoyed COLA last year"
You could be even more clear by saying, "I can't speak for anybody else, but
I enjoy COLA now more than I enjoyed COLA last year".
Of course... I am just being silly. Your original wording was perfectly
clear.
> I would go further and say that I was about to unsubscribe from COLA last
> year. I didn't enjoy it at all at the start. I remember preparing to
> unsubscribe...
I unsubscribed for a while... it does seem better now than it did a while
back.
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