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Re: USAGE: 'born'

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Friday, May 11, 2001, 22:14
David Peterson wrote:
> If this were true, it'd be such awful, awful writing that it wouldn't be > published anywhere. Using the same word twice in a row with the same meaning > and having the first one be a sentence fragment? And why on Earth would > Phoenix still be becoming something? You know how old it is?
Well, in the very next sentence he says something like "There may be doubts as to what it's becoming". And it doesn't matter how old something is, it can still become something else. What does age have to do with anything? -- Cenedl heb iaith, cenedl heb galon A nation without a language is a nation without a heart - Welsh proverb ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42