-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 2:56 PM -0800 on 1/14/03, Bill Stewart wrote:
> And while some of the edges have been bashed off of irregular > verbs, if you'd a-been fixin' to talk about some verb forms being > simpler, you shouldn't'a started out pickin' Southern grammar as an > example. Heck, even southern pronunciation is fun, viz, "a parcel of victuals", for you Max Baer, Jr. fans... Cheers, RAH Who has several good friends these days who are much easier to understand in print than they are in person, and whose principal attraction to the Jack Aubrey books (after all the sailing stuff, and the feminist-orthogonal worldview), was the language... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 - not licensed for commercial use: www.pgp.com iQA/AwUBPiSlXsPxH8jf3ohaEQIuyQCfQPfV7pk0dIDnvWTzKPO3DISrNlMAn3UM aIx4maNqkmOe2K6mQTKdo+6y =h6II -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
