Paleographic problem in Porter

clayton stirling bartholomew c.s.bartholomew at worldnet.att.net
Sat Feb 19 23:48:20 EST 2000




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>From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
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> What were you drinking during those several more moments, Clay?

Celestial Seasonings "Mandarin Orange Spice" tea,  my third cup in two
hours. I need to cut back on this.

> The one problem I see with all five of Clay's suggestions--two, if we
> disregard the first three--is that something more is still needed to
> coordinate with "than"--unless (perhaps) Porter meant to write "more"
> rather than "the most ..."
>

Carl is right. No one word will do the trick here if you want a smoothly
flowing sentence. But one word is enough to fill in the sense.

Before getting too excited about this one needs to go back and read a
few random paragraphs from Porter's Ph.D. dissertation. This will put
the whole question in perspective.

Clay






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