is the dang number
I wrote: The second portion of the sentence seems to contract
the first part unless "...I often find myself grasping for
words or unable to adequately express myself in
conversation" has nothing to do with "linguistic
abilities."
Of course, the word should have been "contradict." To have written
"contract" is an odd slip, and accounting for it in terms of
controlling variables would be difficult. Of course, there is a lot of
formal similarity. :)
gmsizemore2 at yahoo.com (Glen M. Sizemore) wrote in message