RE: Re: OT Faffy/Mike/Linguistics 101

[Guest guest]

At 12:38 AM 2/2/04 -0000, you wrote:

>both constructions are perfectly wonderful. variety is beautiful.

>language is a subtle flower grown in the fertile soil of human

>experience. language, like water, will flow to settle in every

>dimple or niche its syntax and lexicon will allow it to traverse.

>

So then what you're saying is that I should just go with the flow, watch

the evolution, and give up on missile weapons since most of them don't do

well in water anyway. :-D

Like the subtle flower phrase, though, quite eloquent.

MFJ

In the clearing stands a boxer .... ~Simon & Garfunkel

[Guest guest]

Mike,

Thank you for your commentary on English language(s). Much more enjoyable

than the Libertarianism to which we've recently been subjected. (And that's

not a complaint. I love the freedom of speech this list allows.)

Judith Alta

[Guest guest]

>

>both constructions are perfectly wonderful. variety is beautiful.

>language is a subtle flower grown in the fertile soil of human

>experience. language, like water, will flow to settle in every

>dimple or niche its syntax and lexicon will allow it to traverse.

i just want to say that is so poetic - and quite beautiful. and i agree 100%

and have argued this point on many an occasion, although with far less

poetic eloquence.

Suze Fisher

Lapdog Design, Inc.

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[Guest guest]

>thanks Suze!

u r welcome :-)

<weg>

... the average busy internet

>chat forum is a deeper literary achievement than Shakespeare's entire

>ouevre IMO... new genres of discourse, new levels of subtlety... it

>will probably get even better...

LOL! blasphemer!!!

>just some stream-of-consciousness remarks... email is a finely woven

>net to the fishing spear of ink and paper...

or in some cases it is the compost heap for finely fermented humanure...

<bg>

Suze Fisher

Lapdog Design, Inc.

Web Design & Development

http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3shjg

Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader, Mid Coast Maine

http://www.westonaprice.org

----------------------------

“The diet-heart idea (the idea that saturated fats and cholesterol cause

heart disease) is the greatest scientific deception of our times.” --

Mann, MD, former Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Vanderbilt

University, Tennessee; heart disease researcher.

The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics

<http://www.thincs.org>

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>

[Guest guest]

As long as we are on the subject -

Would it not be more accurate to say: " Each is correct for the group that

uses it. " ?

Enjoy! ;-)

Judith Alta

-----Original Message-----

From: Anton [mailto:michaelantonparker@...]

absolutely Judith, I agree both are correct for the group that uses

them...

--- In , " Judith Alta " <jaltak@v...>

wrote:

> Which group of words has the correct spelling?

>

> Group 1 Labour, behaviour, colour

>

> Or

>

> Group 2 Labor, behavior, color

>

> My spell checker marks the first group as misspelled. But if you

live in the

> UK or Canada your spell checker will mark the second group as

misspelled.

> ;-)

>

> So which group is really correct?

>

> In England a car has a bonnet and a boot. In the USA it's a hood

and a

> trunk. (If I'm wrong please correct me.)

>

> Which is correct?

>

> I take the side that says that whatever is accepted usage by a

particular

> group is correct for that group.

>

> Judith Alta

[Guest guest]

--- Anton

<michaelantonparker@...> wrote: >

@@@@@@@@@@@@@

> indeed, pretty ugly, but " me and her went... " is

> best, not the common

> bastardization of English of " her and I went... "

> that most people are

> taught to believe is " correct " .

And what would be wrong with the " correct " " She and I

went " ?

Jo

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