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Subject: [Leica] re: 'merican language
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Tue Jan 31 09:19:54 2006

ROFLOL!


On 1/31/06 12:11 PM, "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp@gmx.de> wrote:

> 
> 
> B. D. Colen wrote:
> 
>> Hey - who you talkin' bout - Man went to Andover, Yale, and Harvard 
>> Business
>> School. ;-)
>>  
>> 
> On a sightseeing trip??
> 
>> 
>> On 1/31/06 11:40 AM, "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp@gmx.de> wrote:
>> 
>>  
>> 
>>> B.D.,
>>> Howard wrote, ".......educated individuals........"
>>> Douglas
>>> 
>>> B. D. Colen wrote:
>>> 
>>>    
>>> 
>>>> And then there's our President... ;-)
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 1/31/06 11:20 AM, "Howard L Ritter, Jr" <hlritter@mindspring.com> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>      
>>>> 
>>>>> In my field, medicine, I am appalled at how many educated individuals
>>>>> commit
>>>>> so many crude, and flagrantly ungrammatical, errors in speech. I hear
>>>>> registered nurses, BSNs with college bachelor's degrees, saying things
>>>>> like
>>>>> "I seen her yesterday" or "I been there twice already" or "He don't do
>>>>> that
>>>>> any more". I even know a thoughtful and cultured radiation oncologist 
>>>>> who
>>>>> regularly commits mis-usages like "I discussed the plan with he and his
>>>>> wife".
>>>>> 
>>>>> So much fun, being a language curmudgeon!
>>>>> 
>>>>> --howard
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Douglas Nygren" <dnygr@cshore.com>
>>>>> To: <lug@leica-users.org>
>>>>> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 8:44 PM
>>>>> Subject: [Leica] re: 'merican language
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>   
>>>>> 
>>>>>        
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Seth, between you and I, people don't speak so good as they used to. 
>>>>>> It
>>>>>> amazes me how many "educated" people use a subject instead of an 
>>>>>> object
>>>>>> with the preposition "between."
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I make my share of mistakes. I guess I shouldn't complain.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Doug
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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