On Fri, 2021-07-30 at 13:55 -0500, o1bigtenor wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 1:13 PM Rowland Penny via Dng < > dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 2021-07-30 at 13:57 -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > > Hendrik Boom said on Thu, 29 Jul 2021 20:31:26 -0400> > > > > > > > > > > And it's kind of amazing how these different versions have > > > > grammatical > > > > differences, not kust spelling and vocabulary. > > > > > > > > Unfortunately, it's currently not accessible, so I can't give > > you > > > > any > > > > examples. > > > > > > London: He's in hospital. > > > > > > Chicago: He's in the hospital. > > > > > > I'm from America, so when I hear a noun used without an article, > > it's > > > like fingernails on a blackboard (or for those too young to know > > what > > > a > > > blackboard is, nasty screeching out of a malfunctioning sound > > card). > > > > > > > This is sort of what I was getting at, English is a language that > > changes over time, unfortunately not all English speaking nations > > keep > > up, for instance, this is the correct English way to spell > > 'colour', it > > certainly isn't 'color'. We also have a habit of having letters in > > words that we do not pronounce, 'pterosaur' for instance :-) > > > > Even more challenging imo - - - - a letter group that has 8 different > pronunciations > - - - don't believe me (rough, slough, slough, though, cough, bough, > ough, > through) - - - - there are even more (!!!!!!!!!) how's that for > totally asinine!
No, that's just English, at least we don't describe things as male or female as some of the European languages do. Rowland _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
