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Article #631Re: Uzbekistan: not just a country any more
From: Geoff Miller
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:06
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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X-Google-Thread: 115ce9,e1a828bd5e36f276 X-Google-Thread: fe8e7,e1a828bd5e36f276 X-Google-Attributes: gid115ce9,gidfe8e7,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!sn-xt-sjc-04!sn-xt-sjc-11!sn-xt-sjc-07!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!u1.netgate.net!not-for-mail From: geoffm@u1.netgate.net (Geoff Miller) Newsgroups: la.eats,ba.food Subject: Re: Uzbekistan: not just a country any more Followup-To: la.eats,ba.food Date: 5 Apr 2006 10:06:05 -0700 Organization: Lonesome Cantaloupe Music Message-ID: <e10tdt$8ps@u1.netgate.net> Sender: geoffm@netgate.net References: <e0un13$krr$1@news.Stanford.EDU> <e0vhab$gn5$1@news.Stanford.EDU> <e10i3m$2j0@u1.netgate.net> <04SYf.66826$dW3.27197@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> Reply-To: geoffm@netgate.net X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 31