Don't worry Bill; my tongue was planted firmly in my cheek.  As you
may have noticed, I have quickly overcome my fear of posting.
 
Mieke
 
 
>         Yikes! The last thing I want to do is make people
> nervous about using their own language. I write overlapping
> sentences, too. I only pointed out the syntactical problem
> in Rebecca's sentence to show that we do the same things that
> our students do; we just do it less often and notice it more
> often in time to edit out the problem. --Bill Murdick
>