----- Original Message ----- From: "Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 10:11 AM Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Pseudonymous postings from the Netherlands
> Dan Minette wrote: > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 9:47 AM > >Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Pseudonymous postings from the Netherlands > > > > > > > >>Sonja > >>GCU: Top AND bottom posting is eviler still > >> > >> > >A small English lesson, Sonja. The term you should use for this concept is "more evil." Eviler should be reserved for someone who does evil, just as a worker is someone who does work. ;-) > > > >Dan M. > > > >Note, I am not an English teacher, nor do I play one on TV. > > > > > You enjoyed that, didn't you. :o) > > Actually I mixed up vile and evil while composing. It's either viler > (which I considered to be to strong in content, so I came to the evil > .... ehum.... to which I mistakingly added the -er. Correct? Maybe I > should stick to mixing drinks.;o) Actually, I thought you deliberately chose eviler as a means of enhancing the levity of your writing. In other words, my reading of your post was that you chose that word as a deliberate tool of humor; a very sophisticated use of the English language for one who doesn't have it as a birth tongue. I was just trying to keep the ball rolling. :-) Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
