"Pray that none of us ever end a sentence in a preposition!" Tut, tut. "None" is singular!
Thank you Father,
Would you care to take a position in the Vatican as papal musing proof-reader? I have an opening.
God Bless you.
Hey,
I am going to add you to my blogroll; I just haven't done it yet.
Maureen Martin,
Saint-in-the-making
Papa,
I love your blog and linked to it from my site the first time I found it. I don't get many visitors, but I am sure that my two loyal readers will follow my link and read your stuff. Keep blogging.
Peace
Maureen,
Good to hear from you again. Thank you for your support and keep up the good work. I am impressed with your talents and I stop by your blog regularly.
God bless you.
Maggie,
Please accept my sincerest apologies for missing your link. You now have three or more loyal readers.
God bless you.
Dearest Holy Father,
We know that there are many who are critical of you on the slightest pretext, but know that there are many of us who love you all the more for your final prepositions and misspellings. WE, at least, are glad to know about the pope's human side. Besides, how can these trivial errors detract from your valuable warnings against cheap American beer? Keep up the blogging: do not be afraid!
May all the angels and saints keep Nihil Obstat from my site, where there is all too rich fodder for his work ... Lord hear my prayer.
MrsDarwin,
Thank you for your kind words...oops gotta go...the stewardess is knocking and calling for me with a raised tone. She must have figured out that I brought my Blackberry to the restroom.
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You're on my blogroll, Holy Father.
You're Wholiness,
You split the infinitive "to make" with the word "never" in the sixth sentence. Not since Moses parted the Red Sea has such a dramatic separation been made. Coincidentally, Moses was quite good at writing (not so good at speaking, that was Aaron's job, ya know) and had quite a talent for painting lansdscapes, too. So good, in fact, he was known in the Israelites' camp as "Grammar Moses." This fact was not recorded in Exodus, but is widely accepted in Jewish circles. This fact was included, however, in the hit Jewish movie "Torah, Torah, Torah" which also featured the dramatic attack on Jericho. Too bad the Jerichoans had moved their aircraft carriers the week before the attack or Joshua could have taken the city sooner. Anyway, back to Moses. The real reason Moses smashed the original tablets was because he had spelled Yahweh's name wrong and some a**hole caught it and reported it on some other tablet site. Of course, Moses was quite upset. He was very proud of his grammarian prowess and since he wrote 'the Book', he later blamed it on the Israelites' worshipping a golden calf or something. But, I digress ...
I cannot understand how your error escaped the ever watchful eye of Nihil Obstat.
Your ESL (English as a Seventh Language) teacher is not very proud of you right now.
-TEI-
TEI,
I don’t know how his Wholiness is going to respond to your comment, but I know that I’m LMBO.
Jay,
Thank you for your kindness; I apologize for having missed your link. You have a lovely family and I pray that they are well.
God bless
Mr. Inquisition,
Thank you for the correction and for sharing that bit of history. I hope that all of our readers will be capable of viewing ancient history through the lens of a modern day seaman and therefore appreciate the time and research you put into your commentary.
As far as my ESL teacher is concerned, he would be quite pleased with my English skills. My ESL teacher was actually a Relativist; he found the rules of proper grammar too restricting. He always taught us that the only thing that matters in the English language is that the other party understands what you are saying at least part of the time. His whole philosophy on the English language was, “I said it OK, if you heard it OK.” Of course, now I know that I was had, but seeing as I was learning a new language from scratch, I trusted him on his word that there were no fixed rules to English.
Anyway, now I am getting old, and you know what they say about not being able to teach an old cat new tricks.
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