Thank you for taking your time to answer this. I will let the qoute stand as
is..
"Burton Samograd" <kruhft@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Claus Melvej" <pikansjos@postkasse.com> writes:
>
>> I need to use a qoute for my exampaper and due to my danish native I
>> wonder
>> if this sentence is correct:
>>
>> "The day will come when it will seem ludicrous to have furnished
>> generations
>> of visitors with but a few pithy words on the wall"
>>
>> and wonders if its a misprint and should have said
>>
>> "The day will come when it will seem ludicrous to have furnished
>> generations
>> of visitors with (nothing) but a few pithy words on the wall"
>>
>> Which i find to be the correct way of saying.
>
> Both are correct (to my knowledge) but the first sounds like older
> english and thus a bit more poetic (using 'but'), rather than direct
> (using 'nothing'). They both convey the same meaning.
>
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