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NNadir

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6. When I was in my 20s I never misplaced a modifier. As an old man...

Reply to erronis (Reply #5)

Tue Oct 21, 2025, 10:19 AM

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...I find them lying around in the damnedest syntactical spaces.

Of course no one can prove one way or the other that the Universe didn't originate at Berkeley or some other university.

I can get "woo-woo" if I let myself.

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