[OT] Piling of prepositions (was: Namespaces in functions vs classes)

From	Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	[OT] Piling of prepositions (was: Namespaces in functions vs classes)
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Date	2011-04-20 09:39 +1000
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"Rhodri James" <rhodri@wildebst.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Language abuse: it's not just Python. A donation of just $5 will keep
> a programmer in prepositions for a month. $50 will supply enough
> articles to keep a small company understandable for over a year. With
> your generous help, we can beat this scourge!

I lately lost a preposition
It hid, I thought, beneath my chair
And angrily I cried, “Perdition!
Up from out of in under there.”

Correctness is my vade mecum,
And straggling phrases I abhor,
And yet I wondered, “What should he come
Up from out of in under for?”

—Morris Bishop, in the _New Yorker_, 1947-09-27
<URL:http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/gowerse/complete/chap905.htm>

-- 
 \     “Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential |
  `\                         things in rationality.” —Bertrand Russell |
_o__)                                                                  |
Ben Finney

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Re: Namespaces in functions vs classes Gerald Britton <gerald.britton@gmail.com> - 2011-04-19 12:47 -0400
  Re: Namespaces in functions vs classes "Rhodri James" <rhodri@wildebst.demon.co.uk> - 2011-04-19 23:00 +0100
    Re: Namespaces in functions vs classes Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-04-20 08:11 +1000
    [OT] Piling of prepositions (was: Namespaces in functions vs classes) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2011-04-20 09:39 +1000
      Re: [OT] Piling of prepositions (was: Namespaces in functions vs classes) Dave Angel <davea@ieee.org> - 2011-04-19 22:49 -0400
      Re: [OT] Piling of prepositions (was: Namespaces in functions vs classes) geremy condra <debatem1@gmail.com> - 2011-04-19 20:59 -0700

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