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From: Rotes Sapiens <rs@redplanet.mars.org.cy>
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Subject: Re: Decline of the English language
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 14:20:19 +1030
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On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 11:47:57 +0000, Robin Bignall
<docrobin@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 10:39:12 -0000, the Omrud <usenet.omrud@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>>News Guy typed thus:
>>> Here is a mini lesson for those native English-language speakers that write as though they haven't yet completed the third grade:
>>> 1) The contraction "you're" has not disappeared form the English language. I suggest that you resume its use. Do not simply use
>>> "your" everywhere.
>>> 2) Stop abusing the verb "to get". Everyone is getting this and getting that. You don't "got" the latest gadget; you "have" the
>>> latest gadget.
>>Actually, I haven't got the latest gadget. I'm saving up.
>I've found that when one has saved up, that latest gadget that one had
>one's eye on has become obsolescent, so one puts the savings towards
>another latest gadget which is always, by definition, going to cost
>more than one has saved. I've been doing this for years, and, in
>theory, I should have a large savings account and lots of old gadgets.
>I have got plenty of old gadgets, but the rest is theory.
Jesus saves, everyone else rents the latest gadget for the best deal
they can get and upgrades to the latest gadget in less than six months
because they read the fine print which says the free upgrade offer is
only good for six months after they signed up.
I managed to say all that without having had used a have!
Sig:
I have a brain the size of a planet. It's not much good to me, however. It's on a different planet.
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