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Thread #86772 Message #1616521
Posted By: Don Firth
29-Nov-05 - 02:20 PM
Thread Name: BS: Grammar Police: eats shoots and leaves
Subject: RE: BS: Grammar Police: eats shoots and leaves
Hey, get off my case, folks! I wasn't trying to give anybody a Latin lesson as I don't speak the language (obviously). It just looked to me that GUEST was assuming that "modem" is a Latin word, which it is not. Now, pig latin, on the other hand. . . .
English is a wonderful language, provided you can manage the subtleties. For example:
". . . one stewardess, two stewardi; one blouse, two blice. . . ." —Shelley Berman
If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?