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From: Bernard Cleyet [mailto:anngeorg@PACBELL.NET]
Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 1:22 PM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: Spelling and Grammar in our e-mails
How does one (you) read (spoken) 0.12 sec.
This remind me of a failure of English. Often one hears
"verbal" to indicate
spoken, yet I think it means with words. I use oral(ly) in
that case. Germans,
I believe use mundlich. I have forgotten the German word for
written (adverb).
bc
Bob Sciamanda wrote:
| Michael Edmiston wrote:any numbers in this
|
| > Student writes: My data was pretty accurate.
| > I write: Subject and verb don't agree in number.
| > Student says: Why did you write this, there aren't
| > sentence?Who among us would
| > I say: Data is plural and was is singular
What this basketball team needs is a "seven foot center".
replace "foot" with "feet"?accepted English language
A large part of the difficulty is that the presently
is far from rational in spelling, pronunciation andgrammar. But I agree that
the we might make a better effort at preserving whatrationality there is.
Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor
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