atw: Re: Pronounseeashun [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
- From: Peter.Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 11:07:24 +1100
Sorry, Ken. I found your attribution a little confusing. Thought I had
a few fly-specks on my monitor.
Who did say it?
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From: Ken Randall <kenneth_james_randall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 06/01/2012 10:49 AM
Subject: atw: Re: Pronounseeashun [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
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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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