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Up to ninety percentage information come from E, not C; and Americans or pro-Americans have long distinguished themselves with Science, Nature and Cell etc and their honored deeds, which shed light on the vision of Chinese scientists and all wellwishers. Who will care about how some people, like you, stricken by profound ignorance and evil, think about or care about whether or not you would act as the role of a smartass? I'm proud and happy because I know who I am and what I can do and what I will be. That's enough. My time is cherished and will waste no more on the worthless debate like this. Just let you rush to where angels fear to tread.

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@oristarA,

oristarA wrote:

Up to ninety percent of information comes from E, not C;
and Americans or pro-Americans have long distinguished
themselves with Science, Nature and their honored deeds,
which shed light on the vision of Chinese scientists and all
wellwishers. Who will care about how some people, like you,
stricken by profound ignorance and evil, think about or care
about whether or not you would act in the role of a smartass?
I'm proud and happy because I know who I am and what I can
do and what I will be. That's enough. My time is cherished
and I will waste no more in worthless debate like this.
I will just let you rush to where angels fear to tread.

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

oristarA wrote:
Up to ninety percent of information comes from E, not C;
and Americans or pro-Americans have long distinguished
themselves with Science, Nature and their honored deeds,
which shed light on the vision of Chinese scientists and all
wellwishers. Who will care about how some people, like you,
stricken by profound ignorance and evil, think about or care
about whether or not you would act in the role of a smartass?
I'm proud and happy because I know who I am and what I can
do and what I will be. That's enough. My time is cherished
and I will waste no more in worthless debate like this.
I will just let you rush to where angels fear to tread.

Thanks.

But the subject of the second "care about" is still "who", not "you".

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@oristarA,

Yes; "who" is the subject of the sentence.

oristarA wrote:

But the subject of the second "care about" is still "who", not "you".

Let me point out something in which you might be interested. I very, very seldom bring up this point
because few people's minds are sufficiently subtle to appreciate it.

For centuries an error of logic has had a home in common
English usage. Out of my loyalty to competent logic,
I choose to avoid that mistake, which I will now point out:
if you begin a sentence with a conjunction (e.g. "but" or "and")
you thereby convert all that follows into A SENTENCE FRAGMENT; i.e., it is NOT a sentence.
It is incomplete.

Because it is NOT a sentence, there is no logical reason
to capitalize its first letter, nor to add a period,
because it is only a group of words, not a sentence.

Because I care about how I represent myself to the world,
I avoid beginning any sentence with a CONJUNCTION.
The purpose of a CONJUNCTION is to conjoin: to link together.
If you BEGIN a sentence with a conjunction,
there is nothing to which it can join before that conjunction.

It is not a clever nor a deft thing to do,
tho many people have done so anyway for a huge length of time.
If you begin a sentence with a conjunction
when writing to a competent logician,
you will lose face in front of him.
He will silently think less of your powers of reason.

A word to the wise is sufficient.

David

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@OmSigDAVID,

OmSigDAVID wrote:

It is not a clever nor a deft thing to do,
tho many people have done so anyway for a huge length of time.
If you begin a sentence with a conjunction
when writing to a competent logician,
you will lose face in front of him.
He will silently think less of your powers of reason.

A word to the wise is sufficient.

David

I read this long reply twice and found being most impressed by the above.

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