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<p><font face="Comic Sans MS">You just illustrated one of the deep,
long-term, and ongoing problems of this list: lazy or
inaccurate writing.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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People who post on EM should write what they mean. Re-read it
before you post. Most people aren't mind readers.<br>
- Ken Bearman, Minneapolis MN<br>
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</font>On 3/20/2024 11:58 PM, robert bristow-johnson wrote:</p>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">On 03/21/2024 12:36 AM EDT KenB <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:kdbearman@gmail.com"><kdbearman@gmail.com></a> wrote:
You're changing the subject.
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I'm just trying to bring it back to the original.
When I said: "the Vermont Progressive Party, the most successful third party in the United States", it is present tense.
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