Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 16:16:21 -0500

From: Bob Haas rahaas[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HAMLET.UNCG.EDU

Subject: Re: supervisor/coupon



On Wed, 8 Nov 1995, SETH wrote:



I often used the phrase "friends of mine" until an erudite friend

explained that "of mine" made the phrase redundant. I argued half-heartedly

that they could have been friends of someone else, but came to accept

the hypothesis and dropped the prepositional phrase. What say you all?



I'd say that your erudite friend is more than a bit anal. BTW, how many

of you guys pronounce erudite (air-you-dite)? Is this more correct than

(air-oo-dite)? Coorious.



Bob