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Tom: "You know, if John had all of the power ascribed to him, he probably could be the pope."

John: Whaddaya mean "could be." I have an Apostille, signed with Colin Powell's name, that confirms that I am. It reads, in part:
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Nella data celebre, l'universite dei cardinali della chiesa cattolica, situati nel Vatican, ha scelto del John Bjorn Bear per essere il papa della chiesa cattolica. (On the date noted, the College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, located in The Vatican, have elected John Bjorn Bear to be the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church.)

Il signore in questione, con l'applicazione della sua firma qui sotto, accetta la sua elezione come il papa ed acconsente ad assumere tutte le funzioni e responsabilite immediatamente efficace. (The gentleman in question, through application of his signature below, accepts his election as the Pope, and agrees to assume all duties and responsibilities effective immediately.)
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...so the new Pope is being shown around the Vatican. There is a gold telephone in the corner. He is told that it is a phone solely to receive messages from God, and it has never rung. But a few weeks later it does rinbg. The Pope picks it up, in great excitement, and it is indeed God, who says, "I have good news and bad news. The good news is that I am tired of all these many religions each claiming to be the best or the only, so I have chosen one religion, and that will be the only religion for the entire world." The Pope is beside himself with joy, and asks, "But what is the bad news?" God replies, "I'm calling you from a phone booth in Salt Lake City."

 

Your middle name is Bjorn? Who's going to believe that?

 

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Pardon the intrusion of an old school teacher of composition who struggles even yet for clarity in writing his dissertation. The dissertation, BTW, requires evidence for its premises ; the readers care not for unsubstantiated opining.



Does *opinion* connect to , "unaccredited schools are frequently attacked on this board without facts... " ?

If Dave says that's what he meant , then fine, it should be accepted that such was his intent.

However, IMO that is not how the paragraph reads. To claim that any qualifying noun must connect to everything in that paragraph on the grounds that it must as it occurs in a paragraph is not valid unless the paragraph is itself unified.

But this paragraph, IMO, is not unified! Dave speaks of various things: how UA schools are accused without facts, why we are indebted to other experts, and what utility is. The *opinion* , IMO, connects just to the last topic not to the other assertations.


IMO, Dave, you should write the paragraph over. Put your topic sentence at the beginning, then, since you are affirming something, give multiple proofs as:



"Unaccredited schools are frequequently attacked on this board without facts. This happened ------------------------. This also happened___________________. Another time it happened is___________________. Finally this also happened when________________."



Here you would not only have a unified paragraph, but you would actually move toward substantiating your claim.

Understand, I am not disputing your claim as expressed in that topic sentence. I'm just opining that when such a claim is made, then evidence should be given. If evidence is not given , then the claim should not be made.

You criticise "experts" for speaking without evidence, but without evidence you criticise these "experts."

 

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the writing tip. It's not a great paragraph, but it is a paragraph. I hope you'll understand if I don't rewrite the paragraph and re-submit...

Best wishes,

Dave

 

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I'll understand. It was just a suggestion.

 

Checked one long thread:
phdstudent
LadyLue

What the hell - George Brown


I think a lot of people may think they are banned. To quote a famous Australian "Your system is stuffed"

Peter French and Bruce have had such a colourful exchange of metaphor in an attempt to get him back on line.

 

That attempt is over.

In typical fashion, Peter decided that my initial attempts that didn't work were somehow a vast conspiracy against him by the "vigilantes" of DegreeInfo.com, so he can stay in whatever purgatory he currently resides.

OTOH, Dick Suhar was a gentleman throughout, we worked things through, and he is now back online (whether he chooses to post is up to him).

 

Thank you for those examples. Clearly, I exaggerated.

 

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I have a feeling that he is talking about Rich Evans.