Re: Short message

From: John Fields (jfields_at_austininstruments.com)
Date: 03/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 13:35:12 -0600

On 17 Mar 2005 15:16:13 -0800, bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:

>
>John Fields wrote:
>> On 17 Mar 2005 01:50:57 -0800, bill.sloman@ieee.org wrote:
>>
>> >Enough of this competitive brevity. While John Fields should be
>> >congratulated for saying nothing - because he never seems to have
>> >anything useful to say - twenty messages of congratulation seems to
>> >represent rather too much of a good thing.
>> >
>> >-----------
>> >Bill Sloman, Nijmegen
>>
>> ---
>> There was an old man from Nijmegen
>> whose rhetoric often went beggin'
>> for nice things to say;
>> instead he'd just bray
>> amidst all the rest of his squeggin'
>
>Might work in Germany - where they spell Nijmegen as Nimwegen, and
>pronounce it that way, but Nijmegen doesn't rhyme with beggin' because
>the last "e" in Nijmegen isn't reduced as it would be in English, so it
>isn't the same as the reduced "i" in beggin' (which is a schwa). 

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Yer a Nijit.
We (here in La Republica de Texas) speak mostly 'Murrican English, not
Nijmegian, and just because 'Nijmegen' is spelled the same here and in
Nijmegen doen't means that it's pronounciated the same here as it is
there, duh...
You really should check these linguistic matters over with your better
half before you post.
If you'd care to spell it phonetically I'd be happy to write you a
limerick which I'm sure you'd find amusing, if not downright
hilarious!
---
 
>Leave the bilingual limericks to John Woodgate, who knows enough about
>language to get the structure right.
---
And, unlike you, the logic.
-- 
John Fields

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