Re: USAGE: Fänyläjikyl Inglyx

Don Blaheta wrote:
> And you want to hurry it along?  Sure, English will split up,
> eventually.
I don't see this happening, at least not on Earth, assuming civilization
doesn't fall.  As long as there's contact and communication between
different parts of the English-speaking world, and especially travel,
there'll be a tendency to stay together, it seems to me.

> A British fellow was touring an orchard in America, and the tour guide
> was explaining what they did with all the fruit. "We eat what we can,
> and what we can't we can."
>
> The British fellow thought that this was just so amusing that he had to
> go and tell his friends about it first thing when he got home. "You see,
> they eat what they can," he told them, "and what they can't, they put up!"
I must be really dense, because I don't understand the punchline to this
joke.

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