A contented linux user

[Bob Hemus]

Bill Campbell wrote:

>On Sat, Sep 13, 2003, joel wrote:
>
>>There was a lot of correspondence generated by that essay.
>>It would be nice if all linux advocates bothered to learn to use correct 
>>English grammar and spelling, but, such is life.
>>
>
>No worse than many teachers in the U.S. Government schools.
>
RANT
My gracious, How many people anywhere do you hear use the nomnitive case 
of the personal pronoun after an intransitive verb?  Always use the 
objective form after a preposition or a transitive verb?  Split 
infinitives?  As a retired teacher it blows me away the language I hear 
"educators" use. They make up more verbs from nouns and  nouns from vebs 
and ...  I can hardly stand it. There are plenty of fine words in the 
English language.  Politions are as bad or maybe worse.  If decent 
English isn't used at home or corrected when used anywhere it just gets 
worse and worse. Teachers at work used to give me a lot of static when I 
would correct them.
END RANT
sorry,
Bob