SPAM-LOW: Whoever comes is the right people
douglas germann
76066.515 at compuserve.com
Wed Jun 24 19:39:47 PDT 2009
TA DA! Now we have a fifth principle!
Whatever floats your boat...
(Someone please complete, poetically if possible).
:- Doug.
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 16:13 -0700, Lucy Garrick - NorthShore Group
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> Sounds weird to me, Harrison. I appreciate your intentionality about
> wholeness. So whatever floats your boat is OK with me.
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> On Jun 24, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Harrison Owen wrote:
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> > Actually – “People” can be singular – as in “The People.” – So –
> > “Whoever comes IS the right people.” I confess to a certain
> > weirdness, to say nothing of incorrectitude, in my grammar All my
> > teachers will attest that I didn’t have a clue! But on this one, it
> > actually was quite intentional. I felt the critical thing was The
> > People – the collective, the Whole. As defined by “all those who
> > care.” That People IS the Right People.
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> > Of Lucy Garrick - NorthShore Group
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 6:02 PM
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> > Subject: Re: SPAM-LOW: Whoever comes is the right people
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> > People is plural
> > Are is plural
> >
> > the noun and verb should match.
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> > An easy way to check is to reverse your sentence.
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> > i.e. The people who come are the right people.
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> > On Jun 24, 2009, at 6:10 AM, Bhavesh Patel wrote:
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> > Hi there,
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> > 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...
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> > 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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