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Cognito
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by Cognito » Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:44 pm
What Are We Looking At?
Michelle, I need to report Monk for a foul. He ended a sentence with a preposition ... this whole thread is grammatically tainted!
Natural selection favors the paranoid
Digit
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by Digit » Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:09 pm
3 out of 10 Monk. Must try harder next time.
Forum Monk
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by Forum Monk » Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:09 pm
Cogs,
Who do you think you're talking to? Half the time you don't know what thread your in. Quit trying to butt in.
Everyone ignore Cogs statement because he rarely knows which side of an issue he's on.
Minimalist
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by Minimalist » Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:13 pm
Cognito wrote: What Are We Looking At?
Michelle, I need to report Monk for a foul. He ended a sentence with a preposition ... this whole thread is grammatically tainted!
Oh, brother....
Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed.
-- George Carlin
MichelleH
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by MichelleH » Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:27 pm
Ugh..... Cog, you are in SoCal (like me unfortunately
), EVERYTHING is grammatically tainted!
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Digit
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by Digit » Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:35 pm
The way you colonials spell we English are at a loss most of the time anyway.
Aluminum, plow, color. Tch! Tch!
ravenwing5910
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by ravenwing5910 » Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:37 pm
our spelling is simply expediant (sp)? lol
Digit
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by Digit » Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:48 pm
I've got an old dictionary Monk.
Interestingly its printed in the US by RAMBORO ENTERPRISES LTD and that's my excuse.
Cognito
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by Cognito » Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:27 pm
Half the time you don't know what thread your in.
Where are we anyway?
Natural selection favors the paranoid
Cognito
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by Cognito » Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:30 pm
The way you colonials spell we English are at a loss most of the time anyway.
Aluminum, plow, color. Tch! Tch!
Really? Cheque? So, why not ... deque? neque? speque? wreque? Obviously, there was a frenchman in the woodpile.
Natural selection favors the paranoid
Digit
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by Digit » Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:38 pm
You need to try Welsh Cog, it's even worse.
Cognito
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by Cognito » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:27 pm
You need to try Welsh Cog, it's even worse.
When I speak with my cousin on our family farm in Ireland he breaks into Gaelic about 1/3rd of the time. Another third of the time his accent is so thick I cannot understand him. That leaves a net of 1/3 that is intelligible and most of that is politics and the weather. Since I'm not too interested in either, we generally wind up toasting our ancestors and their mythical deeds with Irish Whiskey.
Natural selection favors the paranoid
Digit
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by Digit » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:42 pm
Any excuse eh Cog?
Forum Monk
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by Forum Monk » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:53 pm
Cognito wrote: You need to try Welsh Cog, it's even worse.
When I speak with my cousin on our family farm in Ireland... we generally wind up toasting our ancestors and their mythical deeds with Irish Whiskey.
Cog, my surname, backtracking through the various spelling alterations, is said to be Irish or possibly Scottish. I think you can guess which nationality I prefer on St. Patricks Day.
Cheers.