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RE: Re: [OT] UN civpol

From: "laserlight@q..." <laserlight@quixnet.net>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 08:50:52 -0400
Subject: RE: Re: [OT] UN civpol

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Atkinson" <johnmatkinson@yahoo.com>
> > > KFOR also no longer gets any media play because we

> The preposition "we" in this sentence has as an
> antecedent the noun "KFOR".

"Pronoun", not "preposition", but we knew what you meant.

Karl Heinz said:
>Better to argue grammar than to sling insults ;-)
>Perhaps it's my English. But I would have tended to write: 
" KFOR also no longer gets any media play because IT ...pacified.."
>How come that I read 'USA' when you write 'we' ?

John wrote "we" because he was serving with KFOR when they were (or "it
was") busy pacifying.

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