Donal McEvoy begins a remarkably lengthy post with the following: "My problem starts perhaps with the fact that I?m currently rather of the view that I am sitting on a non-linguistic object and typing this on a non-linguistic object ..." I agree that holding this view is a problem. You are sitting on a chair, typing on a computer. Sincerely, Phil Enns Toronto, ON ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html