atw: Re: Pronounseeashun [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
- From: Ken Randall <kenneth_james_randall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 15:48:40 -0800 (PST)
What you are referring to is something that I quoted from someone else. I did
not say it. That is why it was put in quotes - single quotes because the
quoted text already included double quotes.
--- On Fri, 6/1/12, Peter.Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<Peter.Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Peter.Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <Peter.Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: atw: Re: Pronounseeashun [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Received: Friday, 6 January, 2012, 10:44 AM
Ken Randall wrote:
>' "Youse" strikes me as idiotic.
How do you pluralise a word which is already plural?
Well one might also ask, if English
is "standardised" (or frozen) , how do you singularise
(:-)) a word that is already plural, such as "they"?
And yet, many or even most of us do
use it (as did Shakespeare) in a singular context, particularly these days
when we want to avoid the repetitive use of "he or she" . ...
Run that one back through the rules,
please Ken.
And if someone has standardised English,
can someone please tell me what "organic" eggs are? Or,
by extension, "inorganic" eggs ?
(Rocks, slag, presumably. Bad
for the teeth.)
One place off the F3 which professes
greenness even sells organic water. Wow! Language is standardised
? I thought we'd at least got chemistry standardised, but
obviously I was wrong there.
Now convince me the language is fixed....
And that con men are all in gaol/jail.
Peter G Martin
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