[Ads-l] skinback

[Stanton McCandlish]

Seems like a legitimate "[sic]": there's a repetition of "that".
Simplified, the sentence goes "It's inconceivable that after X that you did
Y."  The second "that" should just be a comma or absent (depending on your
feelings about commas).  I don't think taking the first "that" out really
works well; seems to make "inconceivable" apply to X (or in the full
sentence to "me" as affected by X), not to Y.

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On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 4:31 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> David Axelrod on CNN:
>
> "It is inconceivable to me that minutes after an Oval Office address in the
> midst of a major crisis, that [sic] you have to engage in a series of
> skinbacks to correct what the nation just heard."
>
> Etymological comment gratuitous?
>
> JL
> --
> "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."
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