Fw: Re: Fw: "mailed" - Word of the Day from the OED apohenist?

[K3 V iN Cummiskey]

Apoplexy:
and no again if i want diction from the likes of you ill consult my long buried copy of elements of style, thanks any way.

--- On Thu, 9/11/08, apophenist at gmail.com <apophenist at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: apophenist at gmail.com <apophenist at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Fw: "mailed" - Word of the Day from the OED
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Thursday, September 11, 2008, 6:35 AM
> > Isnt this like the past tense of, to mail, i guess
> it's a matter of anything to give these people busy.
> 
> what you talking about? You really nothing better to do
> than flood this list with irrelevant junk? 
> 
> Also, for someone who reposts OED entries you should know
> that putting a comma between "of" and the word
> that follows in the contexts like the one above is an
> elementary school mistake. Also, "isn't" is
> spelled with an apostrophe and the comma splice between
> "to mail" and "I guess" is considered to
> be a feature of spoken English. Finally, "to give sb
> busy" is not an accetable collocation in English.