RE: Russia and Ukraine
September 26, 2022 at 4:03 pm
(This post was last modified: September 26, 2022 at 4:04 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(September 26, 2022 at 3:31 pm)Jehanne Wrote: In the months before he died, he was feeding pigeons. I did not mean to imply that he died while feeding pigeons, only that he "died penniless".
I only care to set the record straight.
For what it’s worth, I don’t have any concerns about your mental health. Your sentence structure, on the other hand, is another matter.
Suppose I wrote, ‘Edward Q. Flooberminker died penniless, riding a roller coaster’. Your first thought might reasonably be, ‘How the hell did a penniless man buy a ticket?’
Also, since you’re interested in ‘set(ting) the record straight’, Tesla wasn’t penniless when he died. The Westinghouse corporation was paying his rent and giving him a monthly stipend equivalent to $2600 in today’s money.
Boru
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