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Re: Uzbekistan: not just a country any more

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From: Geoff Miller
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:06
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jeremy  <jeremy@dcnet2000.com> writes:

: A person who trolls isn't a "troll"; he's a *troller.*

> This from a country that uses disrespect as a verb.

Nice attempt at diversion.  I never said that *I* approve of using
"disrespect" as a verb.  Obviously some words are both verbs and 
nouns, one topical example being "cook."  But it doesn't follow 
that therefore, *all* nouns are also verbs.


> Sigh, none of you seem to write English correctly, your punctuation is 
> pitiful and us English have to read this, knowing that the language is 
> doomed to evolve to the standards of the lowest common denominator :-)

Seeing as how we're not only the dominant English-speaking nation, but
in fact the mightiest nation-state in the history of the planet, perhaps
it's time that our form of the language officially displaced yours as the
canonical one.  



Geoff

-- 
"I don't even buy the dictionary unless 'fist'
 is defined as a verb." -- Dan Hillman
					
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