. Texting is, at least, "clean" (since there are no
> rules, none can be broken). And it's innovative. And it's fun. At its
> best, it's like a puzzle, full of subtexts and innuendoes, just like
> lace is. For all I know, it may be the future of English :)
Trouble is DH makes up his own text lang
On Sep 3, 2005, at 8:08, Margery Allcock wrote:
We were taught (in SCOTLAND, in the 50s) as follows:
Yeah, 1956 for me - I was 7, refused to learn piano (*all* my little
friends wre learning piano and it seemed like supreme pain in the
butt), so my Mother thought that learning English (after
Joy Beeson writes:(Tried it in sleeping bags one night so we wouldn't get
sore necks -- fell asleep before the show started.)
Ain't it heck, getting' old?
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I keep reading how the oil reserves are to be tapped, and I've read about
international contributions. I also keep wondering about the sense of this
-- I've heard several times that the difficulty is not supplies of crude,
but the capacity to refine the crude. Apparently 25% of the refining
capac
Tamara wrote:
> But grammar is something else. The only firm change I can think of
> within the past 50 yrs is the usage of "shall" and "will" not only as
> being a difference in degree of intention but also something to do with
> person (singular, plural, first second, etc). Can't remember any of
Over the past few days we have been contacted via email several times saying
that we have won £300,000 (Oh - if only!!!). We thought it was a bit fishy,
but have gone along with it so far, until they said we had to pay to receive a
package from a firm of couriers containing documents we would have
In addition to Bev's new email scam, I got another one I'd not received
before offering free shipping to both ebay buyers and sellers - click on the
link to enter your debit card details. Warning flashes into my head - why do
they want my debit card details if they're offering a free service?
It's been reported that there's a problem with fuel supplies because of
refineries being destroyed by Katrina. 20 oil tanker ships have arrived in
the UK to take oil supplies to the USA, when normally this would be the
number in a month. I stress that this was reported - haven't checked it.
Bu
Weronika wrote:
Texting is done by some adults, but mainly between teenagers and early
twenties to and from friends they've only seen five minutes ago, and seems
to me to be an attempt to give themselves RSI (repetitive strain injury).
It's done on a mobile phone (cellphone). Messages are wr
