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