what is "politions" Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Hemus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 8:08 PM Subject: Re: A contented linux user
> Bill Campbell wrote: > > >On Sat, Sep 13, 2003, joel wrote: > > > >>There was a lot of correspondence generated by that essay. > >>It would be nice if all linux advocates bothered to learn to use correct > >>English grammar and spelling, but, such is life. > >> > > > >No worse than many teachers in the U.S. Government schools. > > > RANT > My gracious, How many people anywhere do you hear use the nomnitive case > of the personal pronoun after an intransitive verb? Always use the > objective form after a preposition or a transitive verb? Split > infinitives? As a retired teacher it blows me away the language I hear > "educators" use. They make up more verbs from nouns and nouns from vebs > and ... I can hardly stand it. There are plenty of fine words in the > English language. Politions are as bad or maybe worse. If decent > English isn't used at home or corrected when used anywhere it just gets > worse and worse. Teachers at work used to give me a lot of static when I > would correct them. > END RANT > sorry, > Bob > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users