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Originally posted by govexec.com
"OSC helped my buddy out when he couldn't get his job back..."

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Originally posted by Orincoro:
Did anyone have to read that title 5 times to get the meaning straight? Talk about bad syntax.

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Agreed.
 

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Posted by DDDaysh (Member # 9499) on :
 
lol.. this was refreshing.
 

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Posted by LargeTuna (Member # 10512) on :
 
ummm. i've never even heard of the Office of Special Councel before (OSC)
at first i was expecting this to be about Orson Scott Card
that's the only thing that made it confusing for me
 

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Posted by Xann. (Member # 11482) on :
 
I read the whole thing before i realise that they wern't talking about an aide to orson or something.
 

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Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
 
I think I only had to read that title four times before it all fell into place. Syntactically it's perfectly well-formed, but in writing it's pretty hard to parse because the verb in the subordinate clause could be read as a noun, while one of the nouns could be read as a verb.
 

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Posted by John A. (Member # 11669) on :
 
I, for one, am completely shocked by OSC's behavior on this issue.
 

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Posted by Trent Destian (Member # 11653) on :
 
It's a darn shame is what it is. What will the children think of OSC now? A darn shame.
 

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Posted by Pen Ohmsford (Member # 9783) on :
 

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Did anyone have to read that title 5 times to get the meaning straight? Talk about bad syntax.

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