[EM] Successful third parties

[KenB]

You just illustrated one of the deep, long-term, and ongoing problems of 
this list:  lazy or inaccurate writing.

Some people here seem to <Send> whatever they type without reviewing it 
first.  Then either they realize they meant something else or something 
more, or somebody understands it differently than they thought they wrote.

That latter is you in this instance.  If you meant "most successful 
third party now in existence", you didn't express that -- as you can 
clearly see.  You forgot to include a verb, the only way to express 
present versus past or other tense in American English.

People who post on EM should write what they mean.  Re-read it before 
you post.  Most people aren't mind readers.
   - Ken Bearman, Minneapolis MN

On 3/20/2024 11:58 PM, robert bristow-johnson wrote:

>> On 03/21/2024 12:36 AM EDT KenB<kdbearman at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> You're changing the subject.
> I'm just trying to bring it back to the original.
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> When I said: "the Vermont Progressive Party, the most successful third party in the United States", it is present tense.
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