"Cheating yeast help group"

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:19 PM -0400 9/16/10, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>Doesn't putting the article after the parenthetical solve the problem neatly??
>
>"[spoiler alert: explicit sexual content follows] an erection"

In this case, yes.  In every case, no (as I recall).  I'll watch for
the next such instance.

LH

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>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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