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

[Robert Graham <address@hidden>]

James J. Gavan wrote:
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> Robert Graham wrote:
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>>Tim Scrivens wrote:
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>>>"Robert Graham" <rgraham2@nycap.rr.com> wrote in message
>>>3DE15AC5.3040602@nycap.rr.com">news:3DE15AC5.3040602@nycap.rr.com...
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>>>>Alistair Maclean wrote:
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>>>>>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.
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>>>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.
>>>
>>>
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>>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???
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> 
> You are dead wrong about "irregardless"; it's in the same category as "I 'aven't
> got none" a sort of double negative, beyond regard and regard-less. In sheer
> despair at the abuse of the mother tongue in N. America, I believe I'm correct in
> saying that the venerable Oxford Dictionary introduced 'irregardless' as, sigh,
> being acceptable. Did that about the same time they agreed it was OK for the
> Chairman of the Board to sing "Nooh York ! Nooh York !".
> 
> PS: Netscape spellchecker, (using either the US or English versions),  queried
> 'irregardless' but offered no alternatives <G>
> 
> Jimmy, Calgary AB
> 

Why look for an alternative when irregardless is in a class 
all its own.  By the way, Frank Sinatra was from New Jersey, 
which is not really a part of New York, even if the NY radio 
stations refer to NJ as New York's western suburbs.