"Cheating yeast help group"

[Dan Goncharoff]

Doesn't putting the article after the parenthetical solve the problem neatly??

"[spoiler alert: explicit sexual content follows] an erection"

DanG

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> Ob a(n):
> I'm not sure I feel comfortable with , although "an [spoiler alert:
> explicit sexual content follows] erection" is even more awkward (as
> it were).  I've never known quite what to do in such circumstances,
> other than rephrasing:
> "a [spoiler alert: explicit sexual content follows] noticeable
> erection" or the like.  I suppose the ancient Indian grammarians
> would call this a sandhi surprise.
>
> LH
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