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Subject:	Re: Who James Isn't (was:Re: New Castle Sucks (so far...)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date:	Wed, 29 Dec 1999 02:35:22 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, John Neal writes: > > > James Brown wrote: > > > > > You don't know that I'm mortal, you only have precedent to work with. > > I wonder....would an immortal end a sentence with a preposition? Quite. That, quoting Churchill, is something "up with which I will not put"... > -John > > > I > > certainly intend to live forever. :) Saw Bicentennial Man today, it made me cry. A lot. Here's a question for you: Would you give up practical immortality in order to be officially recognised as "human", given that you already were, for all intents and purposes?

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		Re: Who James Isn't (was:Re: New Castle Sucks (so far...)
(...) Por moi? I will reserve judgment on Bi-man until I see it tomorrow or Thurs, but my initial reaction from trailers is that this whole topic was dealt with quite elegantly in ST:TNG with the character of Data. The author of Ecclesiastes was (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

		Re: Who James Isn't (was:Re: New Castle Sucks (so far...)
(...) The "rule" about prepositions ending sentences is an archaic Victorianism, an effort to "Latinize" English. Since English is a Germanic language, and German has prepositions at the end of sentences all of the time (separable prefixes and all (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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(...) I wonder....would an immortal end a sentence with a preposition? -John (...) (25 years ago, 29-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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