--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

> --- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, "Gerry" <waluk@...> wrote:
> > > It's an embarassment Gerry sneaked in when we were setting up
> the
> > > group. Nobody else was keen to shoulder the burden of
> moderating
> > > the group - the reserve moderators are only likely to step in

if

> > > Gerry ceases to shoulder the administrative burden.
> >
> > Actually I didn't sneak in. I was asked if I wished to moderate
> this
> > list and reluctantly I accepted.
>
> 'Sneak' is transitive in my statement above, and I'm not convinced
> my statement would be gramatical if it were intransitive. I meant
> that you sneaked in the part of the blurb that's been objected to,
> and I for one would dearly love to remove it, but if I did so it
> would create an unseemly row and I would be in the wrong.
>
> I should have said 'prepared', not 'keen', above.
>
> Richard.
> Reserve Moderator.

Ah, geez Richard,
Let's let it go. It has been removed.
Ciao,
Gerry