Comments on: Are We Losing it to the Taliban in Afghanistan? http://www.bloggernews.net/124449 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Sun, 27 May 2012 20:12:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Ed Kent http://www.bloggernews.net/124449#comment-1612340 Ed Kent Mon, 03 May 2010 12:09:46 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/124449#comment-1612340 Ronald, I must have been corrupted by my several years of British Education. We borrowed from it, but it is really a different dialect -- or several of them. Ronald, I must have been corrupted by my several years of British Education. We borrowed
from it, but it is really a different dialect — or several of them.

]]> By: Ronald Williams http://www.bloggernews.net/124449#comment-1612313 Ronald Williams Mon, 03 May 2010 10:22:19 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/124449#comment-1612313 I take it back, this one is much worse: "And then there is Iran to come up next — either Israel attacking or vice versa — with both losing and oil going sky high in prices." I take it back, this one is much worse:

“And then there is Iran to come up next — either Israel attacking or vice versa — with both losing and oil going sky high in prices.”

]]> By: Ronald Williams http://www.bloggernews.net/124449#comment-1612310 Ronald Williams Mon, 03 May 2010 10:21:15 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/124449#comment-1612310 "Where we should go from here is to economic help rather than military oppression in this vital zone." For a man who claims to be a college professor, this is a horribly constructed sentence. It hurts my head to attempt to read and understand it. “Where we should go from here is to economic help rather than military oppression in this vital zone.”

For a man who claims to be a college professor, this is a horribly constructed sentence. It hurts my head to attempt to read and understand it.

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