"Info-viewer _for on_ the desktop." [NT]

[Arnold Zwicky]

On Oct 28, 2011, at 8:04 AM, i wrote:

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> On Oct 28, 2011, at 7:58 AM, i wrote:
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>> [but since "for on the desktop" and "for the desktop" are both available, some critics will probably treat the second as pleonastic.]
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> i meant _the first_.

on the other hand, some people might treat the second as a truncation, an omission of P2.

arnold

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