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Re: Yes, what the fuck? by I need clarification 03/27/2003, 2:28pm PST
Chairman Mao wrote:

How do you go from here:

Chairman Mao wrote:

Some of us have returned to school, or in your case done med school (and gone elsewhere) or in Zseni's case doing Veteranry school.


To here:

I need clarification wrote:

Seriously, now. Are you the janitor?


?

I am whiny and sloven. I require you to use a diagram. A funny one.


Well, I don't know how to post diagrams, but I'll try to break it down for you.

"Some of us have returned to school,"

So far, so adequate...

"or in your case done med school (and gone elsewhere)"

...whoa, we're veering a bit off the grammar path now, style-wise. "In your case have done med school (and gone elsewhere)" is a little clunky...

"or in Zseni's case doing Veteranry school."

... the wheels are off the cart! "In Zseni's case have doing Veteranry [sic] school" is just a bad, bad sentence.

Try this one on for size:

"Some of us have returned to school. You've returned to medical school, then moved on, and Zsensi attended veterinary school."

It's still not a great sentence (plus the two examples you cite are pretty weak, considering they both washed out), but it's getting a little closer to English.
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