he people who write
them -- I cannot guarantee that it was not me, too! --
are just being careless, or casual, or loose in their
canon, that probably they meant to write something else,
and that the job of reflection on expressions is to help
them -- or help myself, as the case may be! -- to untangle
their sense and, as Bobby Burns say, "to mend their ways".
 
&gt; It is perhaps worth remembering that this discussion
&gt; started with Graham saying that activities WERE relations,
&gt; where as I was saying 