[TheForge] PC-ness Grammatical Pet Peeve Rant - Way OT

Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer artgawk at thegrid.net
Thu May 31 01:49:45 EDT 2007


For 6 years?

Kathy wrote:
> He doesn't seem to understand grammatical English either; perhaps it's just
> stage fright :)
> Mikey
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net]
> On Behalf Of Bruce Freeman
> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 11:22 AM
> To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] PC-ness Grammatical Pet Peeve Rant - Way OT
> 
> Maybe we'd have difficulty what they SAID, but there's plenty evidence to show
> we have no difficulty with what they wrote.
> 
> Our president excepted, of course.  He doesn't seem to understand what they
> wrote in the Constitution...
> 
> Bruce
> NJ
> 
>>>> ries at riesniemi.com 5/30/2007 11:53 AM >>>
> 
> On May 30, 2007, at 4:50 AM, Bruce Freeman wrote:
> 
> " the language is changing.  For the worse."
> 
> 
> Bruce
> NJ
> 
> Dude! How can you even think that?
> I think the changes in the language are like totally the schiznitz!
> 
> Of course, I do have "Old Fart" embroidered in red above the left  
> pocket of my work shirt.
> 
> But really, no matter what we would like, language is a living thing,  
> and it changes, all the time.
> We probably could not understand most of what an american from 1776  
> said.
> I know I can barely understand it when Thomas Pynchon writes it in  
> his book "Mason Dixon", anyway.
> 
> 
> 
> Ries Niemi
> Industrial Artist
> http://www.riesniemi.com/ 
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