Re: Have you always dreamed of become a high payed consultant?

[Robert Graham <address@hidden>]

Tim Scrivens wrote:
> "Robert Graham" <rgraham2@nycap.rr.com> wrote in message
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>>
>>Alistair Maclean wrote:
>>
>>>In article <3ddf96d3_6@Usenet.com>, Peter E. C. Dashwood <dashwood@nospa
>>>m.enternet.co.nz> writes
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hmmm... waiting to get "payed" with "baited" breath...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Pete.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Email left unread due to misspelling of "sometmes".
>>>
>>>ps English is mutating/evolving and expanding not declining.
>>>
>>
>>And U.S. English is evolving the fastest.  We are more than
>>happy to take words from anyone's language and make it our
>>own.  We're economical as well.  Look at all the U's we've
>>dropped, like in "color" as opposed to "colour", etc.
>>
>>We've even had movements to change to a phonetic form of
>>spelling - "kat" for "cat".  Think of what that would do to
>>your spell checkers!  If you look at old writing from 200
>>years ago, great people had very bad spelling.  Sometimes in
>>the same document they would spell a word several different
>>ways.
> 
> 
> We do that now, and never even notice.
> 
> OK and Okay, for example.
> 
> And from memory, there are 4 acceptable spellings for "panatella", depending
> on which dictionary you use.
> 
>


And some dictionaries even think "irregardless" is 
acceptable.  If you can't have fun with the language you'll 
end up like the French, with a language police preventing 
the usage of any formerly French words that have been 
"Americanized".  I wonder how they have a rendez-vous now, 
since we use it all the time in the U.S.
Can they even use "R.S.V.P." any more???