Re: OT: coins and currency

--- In conlang@yahoogroups.com, Michael Potter <mhpotter@B...> wrote:

>Seriously, I'm glad there's somebody else on here that seems to be
>interested in this. I think we left everybody else behind after
>about the first sentence.
Not so.  This is how I learn & where I get ideas for my conlang &
conculture.  Most OT's fascinate me.  The only topics I ignore
regularly are those concerning computer programming.  That is a
subject way beyond me right now & probably always will be.  And I do
ignore flames if they get too hot.


>From R.A. Brown:
>If Mark is right in blaming the media - and I have no reason to
>suppose he is not right - why do they have to make a potentially
>confusing situation even more confusing?
If they are like the majority of American journalists in my
experience, it's because they haven't got a clue as to how to work
with the English language.  A good example is our cable weather
channel.  What can one say hours on end about the weather?  This is
the only time I say, "Thank God for the commercials!"  It's a good
source of gobbledy-gook & poorly constructed sentences.

Charlie
http://wiki.frath.net/user:caeruleancentaur