Re: OT: Notice of Revocation of Independence

De rien, mon ami... you are completely excused for your agitation in this matter
of political spoofing.

Numéro Un? Une? homme? femme? You hide, so, behind this designation. I couldn't even
send you a private and very hilarious letter; you've set it up such that your
email address can't be read by my machine. I was going to send you and Marcos a
link to a completely irreverant site touching on Marcos' recent, questionable,
but uproarious posting which because my site was equally questionable I didn't
want to share with the list. Oh well. At any rate, Number One (I find it too
hard to type "# 1"--missed a few times even then), you write below that you
think we all should use accent marks for foreign words like Quebec, but you
don't bother to look up the correct spelling for "written." I can, with
difficulty, produce a diacritical mark over a letter in Outlook Express, but
the only one I have memorized is ß, Unicode 225. All the others I have to
check. Were I ever to write to you in French, I would check every word for
spelling, gender, correctness of idiom, an arduous and long procedure, and if I
were to make a mistake, I'm SURE you would be as forgiving of me as all of us
are of YOU. I realize you don't have the time to correspond with us quickly and
consult an English grammar at the same time... it would take hours to respond
to posts. So please don't take this the wrong way: but if you want us to
conform to your language and its spelling conventions, then quid pro quo.
Perhaps you and all of us had better stick to issues of language construction,
and leave the political spoofs and the spelling corrections behind.

Please accept these remarks with our friendliest intentions to assist!
:)
Sally
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: # 1 
  To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU 
  Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 12:16 AM
  Subject: Re: OT: FW: Notice of Revocation of Independence


  I'm sorry...

  I never wanted to start such a discution

  About America, the word America Is the continent including North and South-America...

 About Quebec, I think a placea or names wich comes from another language
should be writen in that language (as much it has the same alphabet)

  scuse me for that agitation...

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