OT: Hind Lick Maneuver

[Bill Vermillion]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:56:02PM -0500, Kenneth Brody thus spoke:
> Bill Vermillion wrote:
> > 
> > On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 05:22:50PM -0500, J. P. Radley thus spoke:
> > > Brian K. White propounded (on Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 04:33:01PM -0500):

> > > | Another thing, using the wrong word for simple cases
> > > | where the word sounds the same but is completely wrong in
> > > | meaning is not so much annoying as just plain makes the
> > > | writer sound embarassingly ignorant.

> > > | Your not going to the store in you're car.

> > > Is the site you cited in sight?

> > It's inside he sighed.

> They're in their car there, waiting for four fores, with two too few
> to's (phew!), due to "Do the Dew".  And I'll see aisle C on the sea
> isle, to be a bee with Bea.

Reminds me of an old skit on the Carol Burneet show with Tim Conway
talking about tie-dying tutus, and having two tutus to tie-dye.  

English is decidely strange, and awkwardly constructed compared to
many foreign languages.



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