Date:  Wed, 6 Aug 1997 19:21:13 +0000
From:  Duane Campbell <dcamp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]EPIX.NET>
Subject: Is ... is

The New York Times today, quoting Kurt Vonnegut:

"How can I know whether I'm being kidded or not, or lied to?" he
     asked, from his home on eastern Long Island, N.Y., where he
     somewhat defiantly does not surf the Net or get e-mail. "I don't
     know what the point is except is how gullible people are on the
     Internet."

Now here is the dilemma. Is the revered Vonnegut playing fast and loose
with syntax and grammar or has the revered New York Times misquoted him?


Duane Campbell dcamp[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]epix.net
http://www.epix.net/~dcamp/