29 Jun
2009
29 Jun
'09
10:58 p.m.
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Ed Groenenberg wrote:
With the danger that this is going to be non
topic....
Warren,
Could you explain what this did mean? I'm not of English/American
origin.
It's a similar kind of funny as "co-workers" --> "cow-orkers".
Just move
the space around a bit.
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
Also, a friend of mine started a company that was
a holding company,
owning retail outlets with various names. But the name of the holding
company is "New Directions". I told him he had better be very careful
with his 'diction' when he said the name. He looked puzzled for a
moment, and then turned white as a sheet. Apparently, he'd never made
the connection before. Most amusing.
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