Silly question

[zanooda2]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "P. Alexis Nguyen" <alexisnguyen at ...> wrote:

> Not a silly question at all!!!


zanooda:

It's just one of those cases when it seems that the answer should be obvious, but it isn't, so you start thinking that it must be obvious to everybody else and you are the only one who don't get it :-). Especially when you know someone who understands the sentence differently.


> Ali wrote: 

> It could also reasonably be read as the hauntings dogged the little
> church and there are many stories. 


zanooda:

That's what I thought at first, but then something seemed a little off, because this way it sounds as if those "hauntings" were a fact (hauntings that have dogged the church for centuries...). OTOH, "the stories" suggest not a fact, but, you know, "ghost stories", stories that not many people believe :-). So I decided that it's more plausible that they were "the stories that have dogged...", but I was not sure... ;-(. 


< Ali:
 
> it doesn't help when things like the GMail spell check says
> "hauntings" isn't a real word


zanooda:

LOL! Yeah, not every dictionary even gives it as a noun, only as an adjective.