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Re: ADMIN: Topic markers

From:Hanuman Zhang <zhang@...>
Date:Friday, May 19, 2006, 19:03
on 5/19/06 5:20 AM, Philip Newton at philip.newton@GMAIL.COM wrote:

> On 5/19/06, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote: >> USAGE usage of language (most often for English, German, and Dutch, >> it seems, about pronunciation and grammar issues) > > Is this where YAEPT goes? Or should that be a separate tag? > > Cheers,
oh please let's have a YAEPT tag... it is tooooo valuable a tag and cautionary measure. -- Hanuman Zhang English is very strange...... Why does flammable and inflammable mean the same thing? Why does X stand for a kiss and O stand for a hug? Why doesn't "onomatopoeia" sound like what it is? Why don't we say "why" instead of "how come"? Why is "crazy man" an insult, while to insert a comma and say "Crazy, man!" is a compliment? Why are a wise man and wise guy opposites? Why is abbreviation such a long word?

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