On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Ryan Eisworth wrote:
> And along the lines of "fact" - No-one, and nothing, is now, or is
> ever going to be, as bad as Microsoft.
Umm...another Bush term in office?
<me ducks>
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> On Sep 20, 2004, at 6:49 PM, Tim Collier wrote:
>
> > (ducking) Since most of the people who speak English in this world
> > live in the US, I say we set the standards for the language. Though
> > English has it's roots in England, the standard spoken worldwide is no
> > longer British English, it is American English.
> > There, I've spoken, so it's fact.
> >
> > Tim
> > On Sep 20, 2004, at 11:31 AM, James S Jones wrote:
> >
> >> This is part of the artificial BBC English dialect. Because people
> >> have now heard it in broadcasts for nearly a century, its usage is
> >> now commonplace in areas where the BBC has a large audience. For the
> >> rest of us, it's like hearing fingernails on a chalkboard.
> >>
> >> On Sep 20, 2004, at 4:52 AM, Joe wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Sep 20, 2004, at 6:43 AM, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> We all know how bad Micro$oft are (have been ?)
> >>>>
> >>>> Is. Singular. It IS a company.
> >>> Unless you're in the U.K. where singular nouns referring to a group
> >>> are treated as plural ("the team are").
> > Exterminate all rational thought.
> >
> >
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