[pchelpers] Re: strange firefox (update) (OT)

Scott McNay wrote:
> Hi Ekhart,
> 
> Monday, May 28, 2007, 5:48:59 PM, you wrote:
> 
> EGlnl> We can spell English the way it was spoken hundreds of years
> EGlnl> ago, but we can't even speak it the way our great-grandparents
> EGlnl> did.
> 
> Here's one example. for those who are curious:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_vowel_shift
So much for ye olde verbiage. English teachers would love this stuff. 
Meantime we have seen the alteration in the meaning of words in modern 
usage, such as:
BAD (means good)
ABSOLUTELY (means yes I agree- it used to mean "completely" -still does 
as far as I know)
BRO (means friend or brother)
You can probably think of other examples. If you don't follow that, try 
this:
There are 10 kinds of people:
Those who understand binary and those who don't.
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