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[OT] Language, was once Re: [LST]

From: Laserlight <laserlight@c...>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 00:08:45 -0500
Subject: [OT] Language, was once Re: [LST]

>> It is now Officially OK to end a sentence with a preposition.  I
don't
>> recall who decreed this, but it was handed down somewhere in the last
couple
>> of months.  Call it English v 3.1, I guess.
>If it came out of an Oakland, California, U.S.A. educator, it cannot
>even be called American, let alone 'English', unless pigeon-english
>is the norm.
>
>Bye for now,
>John L.

That was Eubonics, which translates into English as "an attempt to grab
more
funding."

And this is really of topic.

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