Fwd: another "bare PST/PSP"

[James A. Landau <JJJRLandau@netscape.com>]

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 09:49:46 Zulu minus 0800
Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at STANFORD.EDU> wrote:

<quote>
meanwhile Amy West has reported another "paste" oddity, namely "copy
and paste" treated as a unit and inflected only on the second verb:

   ok partly copy and pasted from something I wrote earlier today.
rippled-water.blog.co.uk/2009/01/03/freshly-written-not-copy-and-pasted

   I copy and pasted my novel from scrivener then from having exported
scrivener but no thing has happened.
www.nanowrimo.org/eng/node/3138654
</quote>

And leave us not forget "Reform Judaism".

If I remember correctly, the first "Reform" congregation in the US was the "Reformed Society of Israelites".

Obama is a "reform" politician in that he advocates changes to the government to make it run better.  He is also a "reformed" politician in that he has given up smoking.

           James A. Landau
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