Got a nice note in the mail from a fellow mefite this morning:

Hi Josh,
You wrote this last night, “tim, the folks who are pointing out that posting a metatalk thread to tell us we can email you is weird are right. ” and I just thought it was a supercool example of a deeply embedded clause construction (esp. with verbs, modals and even a quasi-modal I think).
-K

Yep. Neat, and utterly accidental on my part; I wasn’t trying to be structurally clever at the time at all. Language is awesome.