posthumously

David A. Daniel dad at POKERWIZ.COM
Tue Oct 5 18:08:23 UTC 2010


What? No. You said "unfortunately, 'posthumous' did not apply to Baker".
Thus you are communicating that you thought it was unfortunate that Baker
was not dead. So, out of curiosity, I asked what you had against Baker? See?
(Or perhaps "unfortunately" was just a carelessly deployed disjunct.)
DAD

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  Actually, Baker IS dead--he just wasn't in 1997 when the medals were
awarded. Does that make the honors pre-humous?

     VS-)

On 10/5/2010 3:54 AM, David A. Daniel wrote:
>> Baker and six other black World War II veterans received medals
>> posthumously at a 1997 White House ceremony.
> What struck me here was the analysis that "Unfortunately, 'posthumously'
> here refers only to 'six other...veterans' and not to Baker." What have
you
> got against poor Baker that you wanted him dead too?
> DAD

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