Re: Thomas Lynch charged in 16-bike pileup near Chicago

Ewoud Dronkert wrote:

It's because Dan uses the setting "format=flowed", I think. Turn it
off, Dan! (See, a whole bunch of commas. That's one of the things I
have to keep in mind while writing in English; it uses a lot less
commas than Dutch. Or, maybe, I use a lot of commas.)



Okay.... I shut it off. Perhaps a quote from Velonews is appropriate as a test: "During Wednesday evening's CrossVegas event Kona's Ryan Trebon won on a brand new pair of wheels from FSA, providing a good excuse to look at a few new deeper section carbon rims that debuted at this year's show. Besides FSA, both Easton and Reynolds have new or refined wheels for 2008. Titanium has also been a prominent product at this year's show, could it be that some, more traditionally minded riders are suffering from too much carbon fiber in their diet? We wouldn't go quite that far yet as it seems most of the industry is still gaga over string and glue construction for all types of components. Nonetheless Moots and Ritchey, among others, have been pushing out new products in the once wonder metal, titanium."

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