[NTLK] [OT} Re: 20 MB memory cards FAQ

[John Heinrichs]

"My son has been in French Immersion for about 12 years now …"
… learning the 'frogkick'?

… twoty, threety, fourty … these as standard number names are via the German.

Cheers
John
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On 03 Dec 12, at 14:08, Andrei Chichak <newton at chichak.ca> wrote:

> Oooh, English grammar.
> 
> My son has been in French Immersion for about 12 years now, and I got to help him with English grammar. We figured out that, in English, there was about one special rule per sentence.
> 
> A lot of the people that I have talked to over the years have poo-pood French as being a "dead language" since they, apparently, have the language police dictating what is and isn't correct. English, on the other hand, was a vigorous, living, language because it is based on usage. 
> 
> Doesn't definition by usage lead to "ain't", "irregardless", and floobydop being immediately acceptable (since I just used it, right there, see)? How can anything be misspelled? "But Ms. Smith, it's written down, therefore, according to usage, it's correct".
> 
> I can get behind things like "it's/its", the trailing ' possessive on a name ending in s, I can even accept "I" begin capitalized whereas "we" isn't because some typographer decided that "i" looked dumb, and I think that "quotes should not have punctuation within the marks"! 
> 
> But ain't and irregardless are just stupid. And what is up with twenty, thirty, "forty"? Shouldn't it be "fourty"?
> 
> End of rant, no more to see here.
> 
> Andrei
> 
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