Re: OT: interestin' factoids (mostly language-related)
| From: | Paul Bennett <spacey@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 4, 2000, 4:16 |
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There's a whole gamut of stuff wrong in those factoids, most notably the
omission of the word "strengths". This is the one that irks the most me
every time I see it:
On 3 Aug 00, at 22:31, Jonathan Chang wrote:
> In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to
> speak.
BZZZZZZZZT! WRONG!
Just plain wrong. Not even an understandable misunderstanding.
Even further off-topic, but more surprising: The current Speaker (retired
recently) used to be what some people might call a Showgirl.
jm .02
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Pb