[EricH]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Out of curiosity, do they still do sentence diagramming in schools?

Ouch. I had that several times a year pretty much from grade school to senior year of high school. If anybody wants to learn, PM me.

Jane, if you're uncomfortable bumping the thread around early January, I might remember to do it. I was also considering publishing the contents of a document I've titled "The Seven Deadly Sins of Chief Delphi", which is on the topic of common flame-war starters and the avoidance thereof, before too terribly long.