.
Robert, I love your critique and enthusiastically
invite and welcome more. You've given some of the
best falling-out-of-the-chair laughing that my wife
and I have had in a long time.
To be sure, I will promptly correct these egregiously
non-deft failings ;))
Many thanks!
Joe
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On Sat, 06 Jan 2007, Robert N. Eaton wrote
> As an old English teacher I find paragraph four bothersome. My
> favorite professor used to say, "To deftly split an infinitive is
> the mark of a good writer." The phrase "...to not only freely
> use..." is egregiously non-deft; moreover, it's arguably the worst
> split since Kevin left Britney.
>
> May I offer a slightly more graceful first sentence:
>
> "Linux freedom allows users not only to use its operating system and
> application programs freely, but also to MODIFY FREELY, CUSTOMIZE,
> AND DISTRIBUTE FREELY both the basic operating system and its
> application programs."
>
> In addition, the first sentences of paragraph four and paragraph six
> might have been composed by the Department of Redundancy Department.
>
> Just to let you know somebody's reading the brochure and taking it
> seriously (but good-humoredly.)
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