Steve,
Regarding your message dated: Wednesday, April 26, 2000...
SL> Wednesday, April 26, 2000, 7:49:01 AM, Allie wrote:
>> True. We take our understanding of it for granted. :-)
SL> English is tough stuff!
SL> Dearest creature in creation,
<snip...>
SL> Author unknown...
I also don't know the author but the copy I was sent once before had
the following intro which was amusing in itself as a concept...
> Multi-national personnel at North Atlantic Treaty Organization
> headquarters near Paris found English to be an easy language ...
> until they tried to pronounce it. To help them discard an array of
> accents, the verses below were devised. After trying them, a
> Frenchman said he'd prefer six months at hard labor to reading six
> lines aloud. Try them yourself.
I posted the version I was sent here in case anyone wants to see it
across the web...
http://www.ee.ed.ac.uk/~mrh/just4fun/humour/toughenglish.html
Cheers,
Mark
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