Re: For those fond of French tongue peculiarities, ...

From: Peter T. Daniels (grammatim_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 07/22/04 

Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 02:40:32 GMT

Mxsmanic wrote:
>
> Brian M. Scott writes:
>
> > I see that your limitations as a teacher of English are not
> > confined to the sounds of the language.
>
> I suggested exactly the same English form as Peter Daniels. Does that
> mean we are both equally limited?

Brian, as you might notice if you hadn't snipped everything, wasn't
commenting on your suggested form. 

-- 
Peter T. Daniels                       grammatim@att.net

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