Re: Laserlight's FT Lite

All of this talk about English reminded me of one of my all time 
favorite quotes:

English doesn't borrow from other languages.  English lures other 
languages down dark alleys, whacks them over the head, and goes through 
thier pockets for loose grammer.  --geoff the barfly.

>Whilst of course the Americans take out the correct vowel and leave the
>wrong one in, armor instead of armur, color instead of colur. This just
goes
>to show that that all English speaking nations have their own,
perfectly
>good, individual ways of butchering the language. Which is as it should
be.
>
>At least we arn't as bad as the Welsh... But this ties into what
Allan's
>wife says about too many vowels etc in British English, we have 54 main
>dialects (without all the sub dialects)in England alone to cater for in
our
>spelling. I think the extra letters were thrown in to keep all parties
>happy. And I've met English people who pronounce Gloucestershire as
>Glow-cest-er-shire instead of Gloss-te-sher.
>
>And as for the Tasmanian pronounciation of Launceston, it makes my
Cornish
>blood boil!
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Matt Tope
>
>
>PS- I take it Grasers can share fire controls with regular beams and
pulse
>torps, given the relativley low number of FC's used by some of the UN
>capital classes. Or is this not the case?
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