On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 12:27 +0200, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
> "Dennis Lee Bieber" wrote:
>
> 8<- stuff blaming Davy for "aluminum" --
>
> > Isn't Davy a Brit?
>
> No, he was a Brit.
> He's dead now.
> His safety lamp lives on.
> It's a good thing its got that heat-sink sieve-
> i
On 2008-12-16, Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
> "Dennis Lee Bieber" wrote:
>
> 8<- stuff blaming Davy for "aluminum" --
>
>> Isn't Davy a Brit?
>
> No, he was a Brit.
> He's dead now.
> His safety lamp lives on.
> It's a good thing its got that heat-sink sieve-
should be "it's got" (cont
"Aaron Brady" wrote:
>There's an 'I' in Python.
No!
It's supposed to be :
There's a T in python.
"an" is only used when the next
word starts with a vowel, as in:
It's been an hour now...
All this is because English speakers are
genetically incapable of moving their
tongues.
:-)
- Hendri
"Dennis Lee Bieber" wrote:
8<- stuff blaming Davy for "aluminum" --
> Isn't Davy a Brit?
No, he was a Brit.
He's dead now.
His safety lamp lives on.
It's a good thing its got that heat-sink sieve-
it's enabled countless miners
to flee when they see its change of colour.
Thus it's s
Aaron Brady writes:
> On Dec 15, 11:04 am, Steve Holden wrote:
>> Tim Chase wrote:
>> > Steve Holden wrote:
>> >> This led to a schism between the British and the
>> >> newly-independent Americans, who responded by taking the "u"
>> >> out of colour, valour, and aluminium.
>>
>> > Darn American
On Dec 15, 11:04 am, Steve Holden wrote:
> Tim Chase wrote:
> > Steve Holden wrote:
> >> This led to a schism between the British and the
> >> newly-independent Americans, who responded by taking the "u"
> >> out of colour, valour, and aluminium.
>
> > Darn Americans and their alminim ;-)
>
>
Steve Holden writes:
> Ben Finney wrote:
>> James Stroud writes:
>>
>>> Ben Finney wrote:
James Stroud writes:
> Yes. I think it was the British who decided that the apostrophe
> rule for "it" would be reversed from normal usage relative to
> just about every other noun.
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:53:40 -0800, Carl Banks wrote:
>
> (...For that matter, if the rule had been, "Never augment your words
> spelling with an apostrophe", it would have really simplified
> things)
Th next dae, wee aul wil bee speling liek this
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On Dec 15, 1:55 am, Ben Finney
wrote:
> James Stroud writes:
> > Ben Finney wrote:
> > > James Stroud writes:
>
> > >> Yes. I think it was the British who decided that the apostrophe
> > >> rule for "it" would be reversed from normal usage relative to
> > >> just about every other noun.
>
> It a
Tim Chase wrote:
> Steve Holden wrote:
>> This led to a schism between the British and the
>> newly-independent Americans, who responded by taking the "u"
>> out of colour, valour, and aluminium.
>
> Darn Americans and their alminim ;-)
>
> Next thing you know, they'll be putting an I in TEAM
Tim Chase wrote:
Steve Holden wrote:
This led to a schism between the British and the
newly-independent Americans, who responded by taking the "u"
out of colour, valour, and aluminium.
Darn Americans and their alminim ;-)
Next thing you know, they'll be putting an I in TEAM.[1]
-tkc
Steve Holden wrote:
Ben Finney wrote:
James Stroud writes:
Ben Finney wrote:
James Stroud writes:
Yes. I think it was the British who decided that the
apostrophe rule for "it" would be reversed from normal usage
relative to just about every other noun.
It also seems an indefensible claim
Steve Holden wrote:
This led to a schism between the British and the
newly-independent Americans, who responded by taking the "u"
out of colour, valour, and aluminium.
Darn Americans and their alminim ;-)
Next thing you know, they'll be putting an I in TEAM.[1]
-tkc
[1] http://www.quo
Ben Finney wrote:
> James Stroud writes:
>
>> Ben Finney wrote:
>>> James Stroud writes:
>>>
Yes. I think it was the British who decided that the apostrophe
rule for "it" would be reversed from normal usage relative to
just about every other noun.
>
> It also seems an indefensibl
James Stroud writes:
> Ben Finney wrote:
> > Or, more generally: Pronouns, which are different in just about
> > every other way from other nouns, are different in this way also.
> > Is that about right?
>
> Can we start talking about python again?
Not with this thread subject :-)
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\ “
Ben Finney wrote:
James Stroud writes:
Ben Finney wrote:
James Stroud writes:
Yes. I think it was the British who decided that the apostrophe
rule for "it" would be reversed from normal usage relative to
just about every other noun.
It also seems an indefensible claim to say that anyone
James Stroud writes:
> Ben Finney wrote:
> > James Stroud writes:
> >
> >> Yes. I think it was the British who decided that the apostrophe
> >> rule for "it" would be reversed from normal usage relative to
> >> just about every other noun.
It also seems an indefensible claim to say that anyone
Ben Finney wrote:
James Stroud writes:
Yes. I think it was the British who decided that the apostrophe rule
for "it" would be reversed from normal usage relative to just about
every other noun.
Remember that “it” is a pronoun. I see no reversal:
Ok. Pronouns are reversed.
Bob's
Its
--
htt
James Stroud writes:
> Yes. I think it was the British who decided that the apostrophe rule
> for "it" would be reversed from normal usage relative to just about
> every other noun.
Remember that “it” is a pronoun. I see no reversal:
he she we theyme you it
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