A contented linux user

[Herb DeLong]

what is "politions" Bob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Hemus" <bobhemus at sisqtel.net>
To: <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: A contented linux user


> 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
>
>
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