Am 2017-11-18 um 18:33 schrieb David Wright <lily...@lionunicorn.co.uk>:
> On Fri 17 Nov 2017 at 17:43:09 (+0000), Wol's lists wrote: > In English? So when I write "I'm at deathes door", which of deathes > three genders am I using? You always use deathes LAST gender. And I’m sure they have more than three. > It's a pity you weren't around at the time "it's" and "its" were > invented, to rebuke people who used the former. Or perhaps we could > just admit that allowing "its" into English was one huge mistake, > and go back to using "his". Now nobody will have to remember which > spelling is which. Of course, any child can justify their writing > "it's". There's an "it", it possesses something, so stick an 's > on the end. Perhaps Shakespeare had a better reason for writing "it's". How about "ithes"? >> (Dialect is not Standard English, if you want to talk dialect that's >> fine, just accept that it is not standard.) > > I see. So Standard English is what you accept, and no more? > Where do we find this Standard English? Perhaps we need an > English Language Academy to guard this young language lest it > be corrupted by its young speakers. We can't trust them. Standard English is the dialect of Standardshire. > Not knowing the people or the circumstances, I can't judge. But a > word of warning: don't ever travel. You might find yourself being > misunderstood in more serious circumstances, if you don't allow > for the same words to mean different things, or even the opposite. No, no: Word *always* mean what I intend them to mean. And both of my grammars are dead. EOT Greetlings, Hraban _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
