Re: Offence in Usage fuit USAGE : ALOT: the final word
| From: | J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, December 29, 2003, 18:54 |
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In a message dated 2003:12:28 10:52:50 PM, elemtilas@YAHOO.COM writes:
>--- Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
>
>> I'm sure Chaucer
>> would have been offended by the way Shakespeare
>> spoke
>> and I'm sure Shakespeare would be offended by
>> the way we speak,
>
>I don't know about that - I bet at least
>Shakespeare would find our speech a wonder to be
>plundered.
Most in-duu-bit-ly... Probably why I associate Shakespeare with theivin'
magpies of language...
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