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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Yep, use it to say what you mean.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>B<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> DAVID MASSEY [mailto:dave1massey@cs.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 29, 2020 12:32 PM<br><b>To:</b> wbeech@flash.net<br><b>Cc:</b> bk13@earthlink.net; triumphs@autox.team.net; lherault@verizon.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [TR] needs repaired<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>So, in other words, the Oxford comma is important under certain circumstances.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>;-)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Dave </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:Wbeech@flash.net">Wbeech@flash.net</a> <<a href="mailto:wbeech@flash.net">wbeech@flash.net</a>><br>To: DAVID MASSEY <<a href="mailto:dave1massey@cs.com">dave1massey@cs.com</a>><br>Cc: bk13 <<a href="mailto:bk13@earthlink.net">bk13@earthlink.net</a>>; triumphs <<a href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net">triumphs@autox.team.net</a>>; lherault <<a href="mailto:lherault@verizon.net">lherault@verizon.net</a>><br>Sent: Wed, Jan 29, 2020 11:06 am<br>Subject: Re: [TR] needs repaired<o:p></o:p></span></p><div id=yiv4499571459><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Don’t know, he doesn’t say. :-) <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>“Cactus Jack drinks coffee black......” M.Murphy<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id=yiv4499571459yqt24493><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>On Jan 29, 2020, at 10:57 AM, DAVID MASSEY <<a href="mailto:dave1massey@cs.com">dave1massey@cs.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Then: "He has three horses, two brown dogs, and cats." Question: What color are the cats?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Dave </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:Wbeech@flash.net">Wbeech@flash.net</a> <<a href="mailto:wbeech@flash.net">wbeech@flash.net</a>><br>To: DAVID MASSEY <<a href="mailto:dave1massey@cs.com">dave1massey@cs.com</a>><br>Cc: bk13 <<a href="mailto:bk13@earthlink.net">bk13@earthlink.net</a>>; triumphs <<a href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net">triumphs@autox.team.net</a>>; lherault <<a href="mailto:lherault@verizon.net">lherault@verizon.net</a>><br>Sent: Wed, Jan 29, 2020 9:45 am<br>Subject: Re: [TR] needs repaired<o:p></o:p></span></p><div id=yiv4499571459><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Brown of course, same as the dogs. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>B<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>“Cactus Jack drinks coffee black......” M.Murphy<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div id=yiv4499571459yqtfd97594><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>On Jan 29, 2020, at 7:19 AM, DAVID MASSEY <<a href="mailto:dave1massey@cs.com">dave1massey@cs.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote></div></div><div id=yiv4499571459yqtfd07646><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>OK. "He has three horses, two brown dogs and cats." Question: What color are the cats?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Dave </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>-----Original Message-----<br>From: <a href="mailto:Wbeech@flash.net">Wbeech@flash.net</a> <<a href="mailto:wbeech@flash.net">wbeech@flash.net</a>><br>To: Brian Kemp <<a href="mailto:bk13@earthlink.net">bk13@earthlink.net</a>><br>Cc: triumphs <<a href="mailto:triumphs@autox.team.net">triumphs@autox.team.net</a>>; Ron L'Herault <<a href="mailto:lherault@verizon.net">lherault@verizon.net</a>><br>Sent: Tue, Jan 28, 2020 10:35 pm<br>Subject: Re: [TR] needs repaired<o:p></o:p></span></p><div id=yiv4499571459><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Brian, <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Don’t forget the Oxford comma, drive me nuts<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>B<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>“Cactus Jack drinks coffee black......” M.Murphy<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div id=yiv4499571459yqtfd69211><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>On Jan 28, 2020, at 10:16 PM, Brian Kemp <<a href="mailto:bk13@earthlink.net">bk13@earthlink.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></blockquote></div></div><div id=yiv4499571459yqtfd38337><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black'></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div id=yiv4499571459yqtfd74622><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><br>Some people have an eye for this type of thing. In my case, I'm drawn to extra spaces between words or a single space after the punctuation at the end of a sentence. <br><br><a href="https://www.feelingoodtees.com/let-s-eat-grandma-let-s-eat-grandma-punctuation-saves-lives-t-shirt">https://www.feelingoodtees.com/let-s-eat-grandma-let-s-eat-grandma-punctuation-saves-lives-t-shirt</a><br><a href="https://www.feelingoodteescom/i-like-cooking-my-family-and-my-pets-use-commas-don-t-be-a-psycho-t-shirt">https://www.feelingoodteescom/i-like-cooking-my-family-and-my-pets-use-commas-don-t-be-a-psycho-t-shirt</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>On 1/27/2020 12:52 PM, Ron L'Herault wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div id=yiv4499571459yqtfd29616><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Warning: This is not Triumph related. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>I’m an uptight New Englander who was taught English grammar by nuns who had sticks. 8-). Face Book, was the first place I’d seen this usage. Now it appears in a mailing list message.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>“Needs Restored like that one.”<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>---------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>I look at that and first wonder, needs restored what? Then deep in the recesses of my mind, I hear Sister Thomasina saying “You will write ‘needs to be restored’ 100 times on the blackboard. When you are done, you will write ‘needs restoration’ 100 times as well.” <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>So, since it is not a Triumph question, if people want to answer privately, super. Do you use this sentence construction habitually? In what part of the country do you live? I was not an English major. I’m definitely not a great writer and don’t spell everything correctly, but I’m extremely curious to find out the extent of the usage and this is a nice friendly group who may be able to help me. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Let’s hear it for fluif.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Ron L’Herault <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>