"Rhodri James" <rho...@wildebst.demon.co.uk> writes: > Language abuse: it's not just Python. A donation of just $5 will keep > a programmer in prepositions for a month. $50 will supply enough > articles to keep a small company understandable for over a year. With > your generous help, we can beat this scourge!
I lately lost a preposition It hid, I thought, beneath my chair And angrily I cried, “Perdition! Up from out of in under there.” Correctness is my vade mecum, And straggling phrases I abhor, And yet I wondered, “What should he come Up from out of in under for?” —Morris Bishop, in the _New Yorker_, 1947-09-27 <URL:http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/gowerse/complete/chap905.htm> -- \ “Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential | `\ things in rationality.” —Bertrand Russell | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list