In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/28/2007
at 12:18 PM, "(IBM Mainframe Discussion List)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
>The question was "Could you xxxxxx." This is correct as far as the
>English that I learned 50+ years ago in my childhood English grammar
>classes, but not so far as current, slangy, idiomatic, and au
>courant English spoken by the average illiterate American on the
>street. When I am in line at a fast food restaurant, I come to a
>slow boil when I hear someone in front of me say "Can I have xxx?",
>and then I am enraged when the person taking his order says "Yes".
>As we all know, the person taking the order cannot possibly know
>whether or not the person wanting to buy xxx can have it or can't
>have it.
Of course he knows; he just doesn't know whether it is safe.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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