European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 columns the stars and stripes monday september 22,1986 proper etiquette on Tennis court by Art by Tiwald the mail concerning Tennis has been very heavy and must be answered immediately dear sir 1 reserved a court at 10 in the morning. When t showed up. Payette would t gel off. He claimed that i had refused to give up Ifie court the Day before when he Hud a reservation. The reason i refused to leave was that i had t finished serving. What should i have done to get cite of tic coun Don Knpp Apon dear Don there is Only one thing to do in Neh Cue. Tike Payette s Tennis Ball and throw them Over he Fence. Then when he goes a fetch them Lack the fait. If in can work fur John Mcenroe it can work for you. Dear sir 1 had a singles game with Rose Styron the other Day and she arrived with is House guests. I protested that we could t gel All of them on the coun at the same time. She became angry and said thai she had promised her Bucsis a game and she could t under stand Why i was making such a big Deal of it. Was i wrong in objecting to having so Many players on the court at the same time Wendy curs dear Wendy it s hard in Sty who is right and � i is wrong. Ivy the four people Are usually the maximum Tor a Tennis match there have been occasion when As Many at 14 people play an each Side. What you should have said to Rose is Why Don t it Law � baseball game instead dear sin i play with a fellow named Califano. He has never opened a am of Tennis balls in Hij life. He says that the reason he does t do this is thai every Lime you tear off the lop of a can you destroy the Ozone. Is inert any Rulh to this Jack Valenti dear Jack this Ozone minor has been going around for some time. In is spread by people who Hare guarded the sane can of bulls since they took up playing Tennis. The Ozone is being destroyed by people to tie constantly lobbing the Bills High into the air. Dear sin my wife and i play singles against each other. The Only problem is she Calls All my shots out when they Are in. If she cheats at Tennis How do t know she in t cheating at other things Bruce dogged dear Brace the first thing i would suggest is ask year wife in Lake an Eye examination. As with Many Tennis players in s possible her eyesight is impaired enough Tor her to believe that your shots Are out. If her eyes Are of then Hare heart to heart conversation with her. Tell if she wants to cheat on her Calls she should play Golf in Stead. Different from gets his vote some words and phrases arc Nali ral born trouble makers. Today s candidate for an award in the trouble making division is different As in this sentence fro the Seattle times in june Timber workers say that unless a revised final Oiler made yesterday by Weyerhaeuser co. Is significantly different than offers they have already turned Down there will be no immediate end to the different than or different from in that construction my Vole goes instantly to different indeed nine times out of 10 my Vole would go to different from 11 is hard for me to think of a sentence in which different than would be pc Referable but William and Mary Morris know More about these mailers than i do. In heir dictionary of contemporary usage they cite several leading grammarians As authority for the proposition that differ. Cut than is becoming More popular among careful it tors. Their example please inform us if your address is differ ent than it was in the the Morrisey notwithstanding thai sentence still scrapes like fingernails on a blackboard yet to re place than with from demands that we stumble awkwardly into different from what it was in the is not much of an improvement. In the midst of this difficulty let us remember the Sage advice of Wilson Foltete in Modem american usage there is always some acceptable Way of say ing what is meant and it is often belter to find a Way around a linguistic Thicket than to Bull one s Way through for example please inform us if you have moved to a new address or let us know if you address has another troublemaker is previous As in his sentence from new Day five years previous to this summer which has Given us Liberty weekend the event which glued us to the Telly in a similar Way was the Royal wed ignoring the which that should be a that i Sti usay Una hunh. Previous is an adjective thai is All it is. In cannot be anything else. The trouble is that five years prior to this summer is a Clumsy Way of clambering into a sentence. The solution is to Sun Over. Collective nouns also make mischief. 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