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  1. I'm guilty of using "that" when "which" would be more appropriate. I think if you're even thinking about what might be grammatically correct, you're doing far better than most.
  2. I'm deferring to Zaff Bracklin and declaring the grammatical rules he referenced to be above my pay grade. I'm not sure we touched on the use of "that." I don't like how it reads, and considering that "a people" is a group, I think I might opt for "which" instead of "who," but I'm not 100% confident on my choice. "Who" sounds more natural to me.
  3. Sounds like my only trip to Cologne, and it was on a Sunday, no less (not much open). Took in the Cathedral and then just hit the beer bar/restaurant for Kolsch followed by a nice self-guided walking tour before we caught the train back to Amsterdam. My son is taking German next semester. I think I know where this is leading, and I'm for it.
  4. Cologne doesn't look like it's too far from Mainz on the map. It's beautiful and worth a trip if you've never been.
  5. I'm not a great musician, but I can play (passably) several instruments. That background undoubtedly influences my writing style. But clarity is more important, and I wish more people writing what I have to read on a daily basis would embrace it in their writings. I agree. If I were her editor, I would have written "awkward" in the margin.
  6. As soon as you put "a" in front of people, it makes it a singular group. Ultimately, it's just not good writing. It loses its momentum right out of the gate with word choice and structure.
  7. This. I edited my previous post to suggest the same.
  8. Honestly, HotEL was probably the worst class I took in my major. Middle English can bite me. Back to the sentence at hand, regardless of grammatical correctness, I'd say it's still not well written simply because it's jarring. She might as well have written, "We are a people[,]" as a stand-alone sentence because everything that followed stopped me dead in my tracks as a reader.
  9. Hopefully, they just keep doing their thing. I've loved everything I've been served there, and the approachable factor really says a lot about the non-culinary aspect of the experience there.
  10. In hindsight, I should have taken Grammar instead of History of the English Language at UT.
  11. Yes, but not a great one.
  12. I mentioned this in the BBQ thread. The beef rib was excellent. The sausage was great. And the brisket, although tender, had no bark and was extremely disappointing. My only trip to LaBBQ was post-Lewis, but both the beef rib and brisket were top notch that day. Yes, the vibe at LM is great and the people were as friendly as they come. But I just couldn't believe that the brisket I was served came off the same pit or was cooked by the same person who cooked that delicious beef rib.
  13. Based on my stop in Taylor last Friday, I'd say they got it right if we only are talking Mueller lineage joints.
  14. Questions/Issues presented aside, I don't ordinarily get too hung up on cutting unnecessary words for the sake of cutting. When I'm writing, I'm trying to maintain a rhythm. Sometimes, more words suit that. Other times, something shorter fits the bill.
  15. I hate to disappoint, but I'm cooking the Turkey Day bird on the WSM. We're hosting and I can't get it all done and watch a fire.
  16. Nah, we all do it. That's what writing is. We hear it all the time, and so we write it. It's not wrong, but it's something I got corrected on when I started my current job about 23 years ago, and it's stuck with me since then.
  17. It should be "have" because the subject is "We[;]" "a people," is a direct object. So I guess it's a compounds sentence. We are "a people" (it actually should be just "people," but I guess she thinks it sounds folksy) and we have experienced something epic. You wouldn't say, "We has." Also, since we're talking about grammar, "whether or not" is redundant. You can just say "whether."
  18. I did my first longish cook on a pork shoulder yesterday. Not too bad if I do say so myself.
  19. It says "with Pulp." I like the one that says, "some pulp."
  20. From New Braunfels on my way to Wurstfest! Kämpfen!
  21. I drove down to New Braunfels today to go to Wurstfest with my son and his roommate tonight. Since I was driving through Taylor, I decided to try Louie Mueller. The beef rib lived up to the hype. Outstanding. The beef sausage was really good. The brisket, however, was really disappointing. No bark at all. I'm not sure how they make a beef rib that is so good and serve up a barkless, albeit perfectly tender, slice of brisket. Anywhere, here's a shot of the beef rib. You can see the sad little barkless brisket peaking out from under the paper.
  22. Cross post. Threw on a perfect album tonight.
  23. dcbc

    Vinyl

    Threw on a perfect album very late tonight.
  24. RIP, Ben. I lost a golden to cancer in 2001. It still hurts.
  25. For anyone shopping wire, be sure to dig into the description to make sure you're getting copper if you're paying for copper. Lots of copper-clad aluminum speaker wire out there. There's nothing wrong with it apart from its being 60% less efficient than copper wire. This is why you see "lamp cord" recommended. But if you end up with CCA, you're basically getting a gauge higher than you're paying for if it was regular copper wire.
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