"On the other sending": Blend or just rushed?

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:06 PM -0400 5/20/08, sagehen wrote:
>on 5/20/08 10:26 AM, Joel S. Berson at Berson at ATT.NET wrote:
>
>"This lets you forward email from your business email name to your
>personal account without the person on the other sending realize
>that's happening."
>~~~~~~~
>May be a cut & paste error or sthg. sim.  The "-ing" would be better off
>with "realize", creating instead one of those very common fused participles
>so disliked by Fowler.
>AM
>
Yes; maybe < "...without the person on the other end realizing..."

LH

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