Subj : To find a subject...  1.
To   : Alexander Koryagin
From : Ardith Hinton
Date : Thu Jul 15 2021 01:09:19

Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

AH>  I often wish I could answer more messages, but there 
AH>  are only so many hours in a day.  :-Q

AK>  Probably I could ask more if were a retiree. 


          Hmm.  I reckon you can find interesting questions more quickly than I can compose appropriate answers.  But when you & others send me scurrying to my reference books & to Uncle Google I'm as happy as a bee in clover... [chuckle].



AK>  But it will not be soon. Putin doesn't have money to pay 
AK>  pensions, and he decided to rise the retirement age. ;-)


          There's also been talk of doing likewise in Canada... and for working folk such news may be rather discouraging.  OTOH I've known various people over the years who continued working past the usual retirement age because they soon found out their government pension wasn't enough to live on.  As schoolteachers Dallas & I contributed to a pension plan at work, but depending on what sort of work a person is engaged in there may or may not be such things available.  :-Q


          BTW, "rise" is intransitive & "raise" is transitive:

               The sun rises in the east (or so I was taught).

               If you'd like to say something, please raise your hand.



AK>  In the Russian language we have the rule that no additional 
AK>  full stop is put at the end of the sentence where the last 
AK>  word is a shorten word with a period. 
               |shortened


          Ah.  I follow patterns, not rules... but this makes sense to me.  The period can do double duty at the end of a sentence.  In E_T we often talk about spelling, punctuation, grammar, etc.  And I use the traditional double space at the end of a sentence to reinforce the idea that I've come to a full stop.  :-)



AK>  But if you see logical and correct "etc.?" 


          On occasion, yes.  When an abbreviation requiring a period is used at the end of a sentence requiring a question mark I wouldn't omit either....  :-)




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