On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:11:25 -0800 (PST) "Mark A. Mandel" <thnidu at yahoo.com> writes: > > --- Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > > Anyway, everybody in the world ought to speak English. It's an > **easy**, > > flexible language with a great children's literature. > > > I refuse to respond to trolling. I refuse to respond to trolling. I > refuse to > respond to trolling. > > -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, > Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody > a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel > [This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.] > > Oh, *please* do so; I'd enjoy reading your response, speaking as someone who's interested in etymology. ;-) Ginnilee Lady Lavender of Teal, who actually *owns* the tshirt saying, "English doesn't borrow from other languages, it follows them down dark alley, mugs them and goes through their pockets for loose grammar"