On Fri, 29 Oct 2004, Chris Olson - SunPS wrote: > "Henrik Jonsson"wrote: > > From: "Philip Hart" <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> > > Anyway, I took off on a tangent. Sorry for that and the abuse > > of your language. :-) > > It's Philip's language? Then we can blame HIM for all the quirks, > nuances, annoying inconsistancies, broken "rules", and chaotic > randomness that is the English language? (I'd say God's Own English, > but it sounds too British.) > > Well, Philip, now we know who to point the finger at! > (And there was me assuming Mark Mandel was responsible...) Damn, found me out. Just for the record, I'm also responsible for the quirks in German writing ("rad fahren"? following weird non-German spelling conventions for foreign words like "spaghetti"?) up until the recent silly reorganization. I also should be blamed for the past subjunctive in French, and the hard non-latin words in Spanish, and the initial "s" as a negative in Italian. (And sort of the lack of punctuation in Latin.) Mark is responsible for the problems in the other living languages. I blame you for the problems in extinct languages. And "inconsistancies".