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THE LOUNGE
The Lounge is the free-talk section of the Forum. You can post anything here about any topic outside English grammar and usage. Wide-ranging discussions and debates will be allowed in the Lounge subject only to the condition that the subjects are not unlawful, obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, and threatening. As in the Forum’s sections on English grammar and usage, we expect discussants to keep the Lounge a vibrant venue for relevant, healthy, and civilized discussions, not impertinent, angry, or violent ones.
So if you have any non-grammar thought or idea you’d like to share, make the Lounge the sounding board for it now! Let your fellow Forum members help you germinate the seed of that idea if it’s a good one—or terminate it if it turns out to be otherwise.
Some close encounters with enigmatic English syntax
Sometime in mid-July of 2013 someone sent me e-mail with the set of illustrations below as attachment, but somehow the e-mail itself got lost in the maze of my Yahoo! mailbox. I therefore don’t have a clear idea of who the sender was, but no matter. He or she obviously wanted me to share these dozen or so images with everybody in the Forum anyway, so here they are for your enjoyment.
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