Realators--meet on in FeBOOary in the Liberry

[Steve]

---  kemper mentor <kempermentor at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> >> Amanda: 
> 
>  >> 
> HAIR-assment, not ha-RASS-ment. Brits use this one,
> and increasing numbers of Americans since it was so
> often mispronounced during all the Clarence
> 
> Thomas hoo-hah.
> 

> 
> Kemper now:
> Perhaps the word was mispronounced intentionally to
> avoid other mispronunciation by the press.
> "Harassment, more then Clarence Thomas bargained for."
> 
> Could be read and misinterpreted aloud as:
> "Her ass meant more then Clarence Thomas bargained for."
> 
> ..
> 
> Kemper

bboyminn:

Hate to be the Grammer Nazi, but I think what you said
is really -

"Harassement, more through the passage of time, Clarence
Thomas bargained for"

First this occurred THEN that occurred.

Rather this item THAN that item.

'Then' always refers to time.

'Than' always refers to objects.

Sorry, it's so rare that I get to play this role that
I just couldn't restrain myself. ;)

Steve/bboyminn