Re: Hello to you all!

Raymond Brown wrote:
>
>At 1:03 pm -0500 8/3/02, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> >Raymond wrote:
> >>At 2:05 pm -0500 7/3/02, Andreas Johansson wrote:
> >>[snip]
> >> >
> >> >At the very least, it ought to be preferable to people like me, whose
> >> >English is an horrid mix of mainly Rightpondian pronunciation with a
> >>quite
> >> >americanized idiom.
> >>
> >>Why?  It's certainly ucommon among native UK speakers  ;)
> >
> >And that should be a factor to increase its attraction to purists?!?
>
>Sorry - a severe case of early-morning hypocaffeination, I fear.  I left
>out a negative!!
>
>I meant to write:
>"Why? It's certainly _not_ uncommon among native UK speakers."
>
I read "ucommon" as "common" - two wrongs make a right!

>As for the purists - thankfully, they seem to be an endagered species; let
>them stay in their ivory tower, while the rest of us get on with our lives
>and let English happily evolve and develope its manifold varieties in its
>own haphazard, unplanned & fortuitous way.
The trouble with endangered species is all the attention they get ... :-)

                                             Andreas

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