Whoever comes is the right people

[Phelim McDermott]

I have known people use their two feet because of grammar issues they  
have with this principle ! It seems to be a particularly British issue.

Phelim

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On Jun 24, 2009, at 9:10, Bhavesh Patel <bhavmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> Seen I started opening space I have been using "Whoever comes is the  
> right people" and quite often people tell me it is not grammatically  
> correct. Why it is "is" ?
>
> Wonderingly Bhav...
>
>
>
> From: Michael M Pannwitz Subject: Re: AW: Anti Laws of OST -  
> Foundations of OST? I mostly call them "Tatsachen des Lebens" which  
> translates pretty much  into "Facts of Life"...and usually embellish  
> them with sayings that have been around for a couple of hundreds of  
> years showing that they are commonly accepted Facts of Life. The  
> addition to "Whatever happens is the only thing that could have" in  
> German is "Wenn der Hund nicht geschissen haette, haette er den Has'  
> gefangen." What I really like is that most of us use the same  
> wording as found in the Users Guide...hearing them (or seeing them  
> hung up spaced around the circle of chairs) I instantly know its  
> open space and feel comfortable and excited. There has been a  
> ghastly attack, however, by some nincompoop editor of "Wave Rider"  
> on the wholy grail of the "principles". While on page 71 the "First  
> Principle" is given correctly as "Whoever comes is the right   
> people", beginning with page 167 the wording of this principle (I  
> will not write down the wording here!!)has been horribly maimed.  
> Maybe its not too late to ask BK to immediately start a reprint with  
> the appropriate wording and to recall the entire first edition of  
> Wave. Greetings from Berlin mmp
>
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