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Re: "Difficult" clauses

From:<morphemeaddict@...>
Date:Sunday, May 13, 2007, 23:09
In a message dated 5/13/2007 4:50:18 PM Central Daylight Time, hmiller@IO.COM
writes:


> > Adding an *implicit* "that" is pointless, if not absurd. If it's > implied, > > who's to say that it's been added at all? > > Is it really any worse than "talking about I can't remember what"? If > your language can't handle "talking about I can't remember what" > directly, you need a different way to express it. "Talking about > something I can't remember" seems like a reasonable alternative. >
I think you missed my point. If a word is implied, then it's not there, even if it could be there. Adding a word that will not be there isn't really adding anything. stevo </HTML>