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Old 01-21-2010, 03:04 AM   #8
Urbane Guerrilla
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Originally Posted by Undertoad View Post
How right you are. How much you know.
You can both spell, and construct a grammatical, trenchant sentence.

There will always be that irreducible core of bright folks who simply can't string a written declarative sentence together. You might consider Charles Lyell, and what Stephen Jay Gould wrote about trying to wade through his lengthy, paragraphic sentences.

But then there are the ones resistant to both training and logic. Their output is wretchedly suggestive of a head constructed of carven pine throughout.
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