On Saturday 06 July 2002 10:40 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
Wouldn't it be great if we could just drop English and speak
Esperanto instead
:)
Or speak frog maybe?
For the why? the answer is in the frogs. An ordinary frog goes
ribbit, ribbit and a budfrog goes bud ,,, Weis... Er, but
robin wrote:
I agree, though I'd balk at kewl (unless there are really people out
there who pronounce it like mewl). what we should be careful of,
though, is allowing the introduction of the equivalent of Microsoft's
and Netscape's enhancements to HTML during the early 1990s. A foreign
On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 03:41, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On Fri, 05 Jul 2002 18:20:37 +, robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:56:16 -0400, D. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:Oh, and it's not in my dictionaries either...
On Saturday 06 July 2002 06:02 pm, Michael Adams wrote:
On Sat, 06 Jul 2002 03:41, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On Fri, 05 Jul 2002 18:20:37 +, robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:56:16 -0400, D. Olson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Oh, and it's
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 20:46:24 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As a side note, has anyone ever calculated the cumulative cost of time, ink
and paper that is wasted on all of of those extra u's used in British
spelling?
They're not wasted. The 'u' moderates the sound of the 'o'
On Saturday 06 July 2002 10:04 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 20:46:24 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
As a side note, has anyone ever calculated the cumulative cost of time,
ink and paper that is wasted on all of of those extra u's used in British
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 23:19:59 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 06 July 2002 10:04 pm, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 20:46:24 -0400, Carroll Grigsby [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
As a side note, has anyone ever calculated the cumulative cost of time,
On Friday 05 Jul 2002 12:56 am, you wrote:
Virii is most definitely a word.
Despite frequent claims to the contrary, the only correct English plural
of the word used in any of these senses is viruses, not virii . The ii is
used to denote plurity in latin words ending in ius, not us. Hence
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On Fri, 05 Jul 2002 18:20:37 +, robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002 19:56:16 -0400, D. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:Oh, and it's not in my dictionaries either...
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On Friday 05 July 2002 03:36 pm, robin did speak unto the huddled masses,
saying:
Actually, I wouldn't have minded if his ideas on spelling had gone
further, but some of his other ideas were really kooky - IIRC he wanted
to rewrite the Bible
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