X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f996b,95dee8b6acc08b95 X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-01-15 09:31:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!diablo.theplanet.net!news-hub.cableinet.net!blueyonder!btnet-peer!btnet-peer0!btnet-feed5!btnet!bt !not-for-mail From: "Anonymous" Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Subject: Re: Nerd Boy, episode 330 Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:31:36 -0000 Organization: BT Lines: 48 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.37.173.8 X-Trace: pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk 1042652296 19112 193.37.173.8 (15 Jan 2003 17:38:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: postmaster@axion.bt.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Jan 2003 17:38:16 GMT X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.ascii-art:21459 Tom Bampton wrote in message ... > >"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. > >:) Smartass ;o) OK, so how's about the part where you get "CEI" in that order in words as part of the rule ? Like in "Receive" (which is my only example)... -- Graeme Porter -^-_ _ / [_][_]_:_ Proud owner of a 1978 /| _||_ v Pearl Fiberglass Shell kit | / \ | -=/=\\____//=\=jaa "I married Miss right, I just didn't know her first name was 'Always'" -- Anonymous