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This month's Goanet operations sponsored by an Anonymous Donor ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > But I am very passionate about English and it makes me > feel bad when learned people murder it. > But you say "birds of same feather flop together". The word is > flock not flop and the full stop should come inside > the quotation. Anthony, It would be in everyone's interest to stick to debating ideas or opinions rather than grammar. We all get what Dr. Barad is trying to say. Minor errors like a wrongly placed full stop hardly qualify as 'murder'. I also think he meant FLOP rather than flock. Looks like you missed the pun. Sunith P.S. As a man 'passionate' about the English language(or is it just the English) you must be aware that it is bad practice to start a sentence with a conjunction(But) and quite unacceptable to start two successive sentences with the same conjunction. P.P.S. It is also usual to follow the conjunction with a comma when used in this way.