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help! English incomprehensible logic :-(
Kevin S. Wilson wrote:
On 8 May 2007 03:12:49 -0700, Django Cat wrote: On 4 May, 16:36, the Omrud wrote: had it ... On Fri, 4 May 2007 12:39:07 +0100, Adam Funk wrote: On 2007-05-04, Django Cat wrote: In language learning theory 'acquisition' is the process where people 'learn' a language by being exposed to it rather than studying it. Here's the example I always use: "It's your first day in a country where you don't speak the language. You walk up to a door. On the door a word you don't recognise is written. . . . in a language that an odd and awkward ordering of words uses. You attempt to push the door open. You bang your nose on it. You've just learnt the word 'pull'." ^^^^^^ I just LOVE these erudite, scholarly lectures on the fine points of language that INEVITABLY contain misspellings. Too funny! It might be funny if "learnt" were not a perfectly ordinary, everyday UK spelling, used by my perfectly ordinary everyday UK compatriot Mr Cat. Some of over here speak pretty good English. -- Thanks for making that clear, David. I just ran the whole posting through a spell checker, and still didn't have a clue what the guy was on about. DC Yabutt WITCH spell checquer did you ewes? As with dictionaries, all spell checkers are not created equal. IFYPFY. Also: "all are not equal" -or- "not all are equal" ? AlsoToo: Equal [tm] tastes teh yuck. I prefer sugar, full of sweet carbohydratey goodness. -- "Truth matters, God doesn't & life sucks." -- House, M.D. |
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help! English incomprehensible logic :-(
Tonto Goldstein wrote:
Also: "all are not equal" -or- "not all are equal" ? FOUR LEGS GOOD. TWO LEGS BAD. JS |
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help! English incomprehensible logic :-(
John Schmidt filted:
Tonto Goldstein wrote: Also: "all are not equal" -or- "not all are equal" ? FOUR LEGS GOOD. TWO LEGS BAD. Six legs icky...eight legs super-icky.... (Three legs just plain weird)....r -- "You got Schadenfreude on my Weltanschauung!" "You got Weltanschauung in my Schadenfreude!" |
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help! English incomprehensible logic :-(
John Schmidt wrote:
Tonto Goldstein wrote: Also: "all are not equal" -or- "not all are equal" ? FOUR LEGS GOOD. TWO LEGS BAD. The table falls, the coffee spills. Stella sues. (worst Buddy Holly song EVAR!!1!) -- "Truth matters, God doesn't & life sucks." -- House, M.D. |
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help! English incomprehensible logic :-(
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Tonto Goldstein wrote: Also: "all are not equal" -or- "not all are equal" ? Isn't always isn't always isn't. -- - Doctroid Doctroid Holmes It's too confused to make sense, so let's make nonsense. -- Chris McG. |
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