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Mark A Mandel wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 May 2003 P2052 at AOL.COM wrote:
>
> #I don't see the relevance of Zwicky's "suppressing the Zs," and, while the
> #idea of the "anaphoric-island effect" is interesting, I'm not sure if he
> #cites, "[A] serious flautist practices on it everyday," as an example of an
> #acceptable sentence since it is even more problematic than the original
> #example (The pronoun, "it," can refer only to what a flautist would likely
> #practice on, the flute, which is not explicitly stated in the sentence.)
>
> FWIW, I give that sentence no better than a '?'.
>
> BTW... Feh to that! By the way, if I may ask: P2052 at AOL.COM who sign
> yourself 'P-A-T', what's your name?

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