X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,95dee8b6acc08b95 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-15 07:52:49 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!nycmny1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!colt.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail From: "Tom Bampton" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episode 330 Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 15:53:11 -0000 Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: edendev.demon.co.uk X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1042645968 11308 193.237.172.117 (15 Jan 2003 15:52:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 15:52:48 +0000 (UTC) X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-Priority: 3 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:21458 "Anonymous" wrote in message news:b03isp$7cv$1@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk... > Joaquim G�ndara wrote in message ... > >See? Perfect example of the inadequacies of English. Did I mean > >"[how] [crazy people] [get]" or "[how crazy] [people] [get]"? > > Yup > > It's a crap language; kudos to all who manage to learn it after having > learned their own much more simple and better-defined languages. > > OK - you've heard of "'i' before 'e' except after 'c'", right ? > > Name as many words as you can where that rule applies. > > "Receive" for one... > > Any others, anyone ? friend, fiend, worried, wield, and many more. What ? Well, you didnt say which PART of the rule! T. :)