"I've a 24" 2.4Ghz iMac _that's_ hard drive recently packed in."

[Dan Goncharoff]

Enlighten me. What was the good reason here?

DanG
On Feb 19, 2011 6:27 PM, "Mark Mandel" <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> That suggests that you don't often need to use such constructions. Those
who
> do, use them, and for good reason.
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> m a m
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> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com>
wrote:
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>> In written form, I would have structured the sentence differently to
avoid
>> these issues.
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>> DanG
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