Dearm Mama2bear Re :Spoken and written language are not the same. Even the best writers don't speak the way they write. One can hear English butchered in any of the 50 states by people in all walks of life. Texas doesn't have a corner on the market. A person who sounds like a textbook might be corrrect but would be boring to listen to. Language, like food, is made more interesting by adding regional flavor and seasoning and an individual touch! "It never rains in Texas and when it does it rains too much." Now, how can you improve on that sentence?
To improve that sentence I would say. "It does not rain enough in Texas as witness to this Texas is still there teeming with goatropers." If I seem a bit hostile to Texas it is because I was boen and raised in Houston, Texas, and high on my agenda when I became an adult was leaving. The state religion down there is football for one thing. IF you are a girl there and are not a cheerleader you are forever a nobody. If you are a boy and not on the first string of a football team, same deal you are nothng. Education down there is just something you attempt to get between footaball gamse. Barb Michael Lee Finney [email protected] [email protected] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
