Re: "Between 19 to 55 years of age"

On Apr 17, 8:40 am, Ron Hardin <rhhar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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  If you are between nineteen to fifty five years of age ...

I think these small slip-ups may be a deliberate way to break
through ad inattention by drawing on your parser's backtrack flags.

On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.

Bull***.

It's probably how anyone would read <between 19-55>, which is why
copyeditors don't allow the dash in that context after "between."

Where did you get this bizarre notion of "parser's backtrack flag"?
What page of Quirk & Greenbaum et al. is it on?
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