My God. Can this just *DIE ALREADY?!* --- On Sep 21, 2004, at 6:32 AM, James I Fraser wrote:
Roger wrote -
Nicole wrote thus:
Agreed.Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:57:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Adobe as bad as Micro$oft ?! In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
#1: A group is always referred to in the singular, i.e., U2 is releasing a new album.
And since we're on the topic: the t in often is silent;
The "t" might be silent in American jargon but I can assure that in English as spoken in its mother tongue, the "t" is definitely not silent. It is not pronuonced "offen" in the countries where most English is spoken as a mother-tongue, namely, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, even though these countries have a much smaller combined population that the US.
Sorry folk, I've not heard a 't' more than 1/100 times in Oz.
James
As an aside, it is estimated that English in the US will be superceded by Spanish within 15 years as the most used language. In this event, does it really matter that it is pronounced "offen" or "often"? :-)
#2: What's up with grammar lesson on G-list?
It's accepted that, even though the US probably has the largest number
of individual users of email, the American use of English grammar varies
so widely from region to region and individual to individual, that one
could probably surmise that there is no set standard of grammar use in
this medium.
Just my 2 cents. . . Nicole
My 0.02 cents also, or should I say pence, ...:-))
Roger--- On Sep 20, 2004, at 6:43 AM, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
>> We all know how bad Micro$oft are (have been ?) > > Is. Singular. It IS a company. Unless you're in the U.K. where singular nouns referring to a group are treated as plural ("the team are").
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