--- On Sat, 20/12/08, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Deepa Mohan <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [silk] Pet Peeves and Pedantry, was: How Risky Is India?
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Saturday, 20 December, 2008, 10:29 AM
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 8:35 PM, Divya Sampath
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
> > --- On Fri, 12/19/08, Amit Varma
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Sorry, who be IG?
> > >
> >
> > IG is bonobashi, who happens to be over 200 years old.
> He is the list
> > Methuselah in chief.
>
>
>
> No, I think me....thesulah. I think I emailed IG about this
> (but I am too
> old to remember exactly.... O bengali wood-dweller, did I?
> ).
>
> Enjoying the English thread.....interesting to see how one
> dates oneself by
> the words and phrases that one objects to!
>
> I think we will have to accept SMS-ese, too, it's part
> of the evolution,
> like it or not...I think that in 20 years' time
> "dat" or "tat" will be the
> accepted spelling of "that", for example, in much
> the same way as no one
> writes "nuncheon" or "luncheon"
> nowadays, or "withdrawing room" ....
>
> Deepa.
You did, and I had no intention of referring to that, but now that you have
brought it up, it seems that I have to yield the palm to you.
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