On 2016-09-28 12:17 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 9/27/2016 6:01 PM, graham wrote:
>> On 9/27/2016 1:44 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>
>>> Perhaps he was. A sad reality is that just about every grammar police
>>> post I have seen online has contained grammatical errors that were just
>>> as bad as the one about which they were complaining.
>>
>> :-) I'll bet you typed the the last part of that sentence very
>> carefully, to avoid ending it with a preposition:-)
>
> LOL Oldie but goodie joke:
>
> A rather snooty woman was sitting next to another woman in an airport.
> The second woman asked the first, "Where are you from?" The snooty
> woman replied, "I'm FROM a place where we don't end a sentence with a
> preposition." The second woman thought for a moment, then said, "Okay,
> where are you from, bitch?"


I was trying to make a point about a common error and being careful not
to fall the same trap into.