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Winners of May 2007 Giveaway Drawing

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JoTo:
WOOOHOOOO! I'm a WINNER!  :Thmbsup:  :Thmbsup:  :Thmbsup:

I never won sth. my whole live...and now on DC i won the second time a program i want to have. Thats un-be-lie-va-ble!

Thanks to cThorpe for all the effort and work, thanks to the companies that are so generous and thanks to all DC members that congratulates the winners.  ;D

And of course: Congratulations to all the other winners!

*PLOP* <- Opening a bottle of Champagne!
*BURP*, oops sorry  :-[

CU all
JoTo

justice:
 :Thmbsup: Woohoo first time I won anything! :D and a great piece of software to boot. Thanks to everyone for their work and energy involved and congratulations to the other winners! Now I'm off to install SFFS :D

Curt:
First time I applied and first time I won. And with only a day in between! Wow!
Thanks a lot, DC, for this great feature.   :Thmbsup:

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English is by far not my first language, so I had to look up what the heck Darwin (and Raymond Chandler) was/were talking about; "Split infinitives":

  Merriam-Webster Collegiate® Dictionary       

split infinitive

Function:           noun
Date:               1897

: an infinitive with to having a modifier between the to and the verbal (as in “to really start”)
usage The split infinitive was discovered and named in the 19th century. 19th century writers seem to have made greater use of this construction than earlier writers; the frequency of occurrence attracted the disapproving attention of grammarians, many of whom thought it to be a modern corruption. The construction had in fact been in occasional use since the 14th century; only its frequency had changed. Even though there has never been a rational basis for objecting to the split infinitive, the subject has become a fixture of folk belief about grammar. You can hardly publish a sentence containing one without hearing about it from somebody. Modern commentators know the split infinitive is not a vice, but they are loath to drop such a popular subject. They usually say it's all right to split an infinitive in the interest of clarity. Since clarity is the usual reason for splitting, this advice means merely that you can split them whenever you need to.

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- quote: "The construction had in fact been in occasional use since the 14th century.."

... can't stand split infinitives  :-[ OK, so it dates me a bit, but years of schooling cannot be undone... -Darwin (May 16, 2007, 04:46 PM)
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I would say it dates you quite a bit...   :P

Darwin:
I would say it dates you quite a bit...
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ganrad:
I am impressed.
This is the first ever time that I participated in the draw and got a free license. WOW. My good day.

I am not a coder - for that matter dont have much to do with compuer and software. So, unable to contribute anything technical in this forum!

Just like playing around with and using software that makes usage easy and more productive!

Well, as a way of thanking, donated some funds to DC today.

Thanks guys!

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