Subj : Drain
To   : Alexander Koryagin
From : Anton Shepelev
Date : Tue Jul 14 2020 11:53:24

Alexander Koryagin to Ardith Hinton:

AH>> In Alexander's message, as we received it here, the
AH>> "of" was left out.  I figure Anton quoted Alexander's
AH>> words correctly as he saw them.  :-Q\

AK> My sentence had the opposite sense. I drained Jim
AK> everything that I knew...

Yes, I believe Dallas and Ardith misunderstood you, for you
use `drain' as a ditransitive verb, like `tell': I told Jim
everything I knew... But it does not work that way.

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