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Subject: [Leica] re: 'merican language
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Tue Jan 31 09:11:58 2006
References: <C004FEE3.BB1B%bdcolen@comcast.net>


B. D. Colen wrote:

>Hey - who you talkin' bout - Man went to Andover, Yale, and Harvard Business
>School. ;-)
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On a sightseeing trip??

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>On 1/31/06 11:40 AM, "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp@gmx.de> wrote:
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>>B.D.,
>>Howard wrote, ".......educated individuals........"
>>Douglas
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>>B. D. Colen wrote:
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>>>And then there's our President... ;-)
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>>>On 1/31/06 11:20 AM, "Howard L Ritter, Jr" <hlritter@mindspring.com> 
>>>wrote:
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>>>>In my field, medicine, I am appalled at how many educated individuals 
>>>>commit
>>>>so many crude, and flagrantly ungrammatical, errors in speech. I hear
>>>>registered nurses, BSNs with college bachelor's degrees, saying things 
>>>>like
>>>>"I seen her yesterday" or "I been there twice already" or "He don't do 
>>>>that
>>>>any more". I even know a thoughtful and cultured radiation oncologist who
>>>>regularly commits mis-usages like "I discussed the plan with he and his
>>>>wife".
>>>>
>>>>So much fun, being a language curmudgeon!
>>>>
>>>>--howard
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>>From: "Douglas Nygren" <dnygr@cshore.com>
>>>>To: <lug@leica-users.org>
>>>>Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 8:44 PM
>>>>Subject: [Leica] re: 'merican language
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>>>>>Seth, between you and I, people don't speak so good as they used to. It
>>>>>amazes me how many "educated" people use a subject instead of an object
>>>>>with the preposition "between."
>>>>>
>>>>>I make my share of mistakes. I guess I shouldn't complain.
>>>>>
>>>>>Doug
>>>>>
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