Re: The Talk2 List Eloquence Piss list!

2007-08-13 Thread Patrick Perdue
On 8/12/2007, 5:14:21 PM EDT, Tasha stood under the lawn sprinkler, and lamented: > Okay, how about "since" and "sense?" I realize that in the South, "e" is > often pronounced like "i," but come on! No, that won't work, since eloquence pronounces sense differently than since, defeating the poi

Re: The Talk2 List Eloquence Piss list!

2007-08-12 Thread Tasha Chemel
Okay, how about "since" and "sense?" I realize that in the South, "e" is often pronounced like "i," but come on! - Original Message - From: "John Clower" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "talk2" Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2

RE: The Talk2 List Eloquence Piss list!

2007-08-12 Thread John Clower
The misspellification of 'coming' was always my pet peeve of sorts. There is one individual on this list who is particularly guilty, not gilty, of these types of ridiculous errors. And in all honesty I read their posts for the sole (not soul) purpose of discovering which, not witch words they scr

Re: The Talk2 List Eloquence Piss list!

2007-08-11 Thread Brandon Hicks
.Hi. It's interesting to note that ESpeak falls for a few of those as well, but most of them are easily told apart, and it uses propper English. Of course with my typing, and no confirmation of what I'm actually backspacing and no way to read this, I'll be making afew screw-ups as well, but not