[Ads-l] Fwd: Doonesbury on participles

Mon Sep 21 18:57:56 UTC 2015

Reminds me of how "This sentence no verb" is grammatically acceptable in a number of languages.

- GLL

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http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/archive/2015/9/20

Joel

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