[AccessD] OT: Friday humour

A professor once told me that no one pays attention to parenthetical statements or footnotes...especially footnotes and she felt it was a waste of time to use either.  It surprised me because I do look at footnotes, but not generally end-notes, and I pay attention to parenthetical statements. 

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From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bill Benson
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And dangling participles or preppositions or what-not - those irritate a lot of people. But I feel this is all quite unnecessary stress. I have never ever felt bothered by unmatched parentheses. What I really am botheres by is interrupting parentheses within parentheses. (And here I shall give two examples: (1) This sentence; and (2) Another sentence that has no relevance to the other sentence)).

Where's the library at?

Question: What comes before a preposition? A pre-preposition?

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Dennis Wilson <dennis.wilson at maplemount.org
> wrote:

> So, I am not alone afterall!
>
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> accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Dettman
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 7:43 AM
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>
> Interesting...I feel the same thing.
>
> For me, it stems from the automatic formulation of the question "What is
> going to be said next?"   When you stop reading, you end up with a left
> over
> mental note of having to revolve "un-finished business", which is why 
> you end up thinking of it over and over.
>
> A nice little insight into the way our heads work and somewhat like a 
> compiler which can't find a End With statement<g>
>
> Jim.
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> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav 
> Brock
> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 03:45 AM
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>
> Hi all
>
> As I have the status as the spelling guru (in Danish) at the office 
> and do a lot of programming, I was handled this notice:
>
>     (An unmatched left parenthesis
>     creates an unresolved tension
>     that will stay with you all day.
>
> It's true and scaring. Some disturbance is hitting me every time I 
> look at the paragraph. I guess it is similar to what autists feel when 
> they meet disorder.
>
> /gustav
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