SPAM-LOW: Whoever comes is the right people

Christine Whitney Sanchez cwhitneysanchez at gmail.com
Wed Jun 24 19:43:12 PDT 2009


...as long as you don't gloat.

Christine


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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>> People is plural
>> Are is plural
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>> 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" ?
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>> 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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