Re: particles and the transitivity of verbs

"Kevin Wayne Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> necoandjeff wrote:
> > "Cindy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message:
> >
> >>Curt Fischer wrote:
> >>>Please weight the advise of those more
> >>>qualified much more heavily than mine.
> >>
> >><kyaaa!> what happened to your English?
> >
> > Could use a comma after qualified perhaps but this is perfectly
acceptable
> > and understandable English in this context.
> >
> Cindy is more comfortable with American English, which that certainly
> isn't. "Please weigh the advice ...." is what we would say. However,
> Cindy has informed us that it is strange when we talk about English in
I don't agree. Weight is perfectly fine here. It means "to assign a
statistical weight to." He is just telling us that when you assign weights
to various answers, don't assign a large statistical weight to his answer.

Jeff