"Montblack" wrote in message
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("Gary Drescher" wrote)
[Bob Moore]
My rant for the day...but back to the subject, if one ascribes to
professionalism, one must carefully weigh each and every word.

In that case, please note that you meant "aspires", not "ascribes". :-)

I'm cool with "ascribes" in this case...
With ascribed, you've assigned yourself that quality - professionalism.

No, not as Bob put it; look again. It would be proper to speak of ascribing
professionalism to oneself. But that's not what Bob said. He spoke instead
of "ascribing to professionalism". That makes no sense. (Ascribing *what* to
professionalism?) In contrast, "If one *aspires* to X, one must do Y" is a
standard formulation.

--Gary