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Re: Poetry
Posted By: Eric Sleator, on host 24.21.13.118
Date: Sunday, December 30, 2001, at 21:24:33
In Reply To: Re: Poetry posted by Sam on Wednesday, December 22, 1999, at 05:20:20:

> Drop the "to" (can't remember if that was my
> typo or your misreading), and it's a perfectly
> legal English sentence.

Yeah, well, it SHOULDN'T be. That's what we invented the word "refer" for. If I ran the language "reference" would be a noun and only a noun, the way God intended it.

Stupid rule of common usage.

-Eric "Morris Cecil Glalet" Sleator
Sun 30 Dec A.D. 2001