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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

In a message dated 3/2/2008 12:22:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
genegerue AT ruralize.com writes:


> > With a few execptions, you have the sharpening device working the  
> > edge as if
> > the tool were cutting off a piece of the wheel, file, or stone.  And  
> > yet I see
> > people most often doing just the opposite!  That is, the wheel wolld  
> > be
> > turning TOWARD you as if the axe is trying to cut away a piece of  
> > the wheel.
> 
> Is that how you meant to say it? In both the positive and the negative  
> uses you have it



OK.  It's an inexact use of the language.  The antecedent of 'that is' is not 
'I see most people doing the opposite' but rather 'you have the sharpening 
device working the edge'.   </HTML>