Re: Herd instincts?

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:24:26 -0800 (PST), bill.sloman@xxxxxxxx
wrote:

On Nov 23, 5:47 pm, John Fields <jfie...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:11:49 -0800 (PST), bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx
wrote:





On Nov 23, 3:54 am, JosephKK <joseph_barr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx bill.slo...@xxxxxxxx posted to
sci.electronics.design:

I am waiting for it to execute you.

You may have to wait a while. If I were an American male you could -
on average - expect that you'd have to wait another seventeen years.
Since I'm an Australian currently living in the Netherlands this might
not be the best predictor

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/DYB2002/Table22.pdf

I am not holding my breath. I have seen way too many idiots, jerks
twits, fools and other marginal persons live 8 decades or more,

So how old are you? If you've personally seen all these people live
for eight decades and more you've got to be over 80 yourself ...

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LOL, you're a fine one to be talking about grammatical/logical
errors!

F'rinstance: "Since I'm an Australian currently living in the
Netherlands this might not be the best predictor." should, to be
correct, read: "Since I'm an Australian currently living in the
Netherlands that might not be the best predictor."

This may be true in your dialect of English. It's fine in mine. Is
English your first language?

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Yes, of course.

American English.
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Antonella Sorace - a professor of
linguistics at Edinburgh

http://www.ling.ed.ac.uk/~antonell/

has found that bilinguals asked to judge if given sentences are
grammatical, reject more sentences in their second language than do
native speakers of that second language.
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Makes sense. While Australian English isn't what I'd call my second
language, it's different enough from American English that its
native speakers are unaware of the errors they make.
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It has been suggested that Texan English should qualify as a separate
language, but it is usually held that the fact that Texans don't
correctly understand standard English has more to do with the defects
of their culture than the defects of their dialect.

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Geez, then, I guess what I write is unintelligible?

It has been suggested...?
It is usually held...?

Nice try, but no seegar.



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JF
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