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| Subject | Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution |
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| From | Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> |
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| Date | 2017-04-26 17:23 -0400 |
Cross-posted to 4 groups.
On 2017-04-26 13:35, Mark Lloyd wrote: > On 04/26/2017 11:28 AM, Ken Blake wrote: > > [snip] > >> "I wonder where the train is at." >> >> "Didn't you ever go to school? Don't you know better than to end a >> sentence with a preposition?" > > It'd make more sense without the 'at'. I've often heard this use of "is > at" and don't know how that got started. Dialectical variation, but I don't know its history. >> "OK, I wonder where the train is at, asshole." >> > > "Mommy, what did you bring that book I didn't want to be read to out of > up for?" > > (supposed to be the most prepositions used at the end of a sentence) Perfectly intelligible properly formed English sentence, which illustrates why "prepositions" aren't. Id est, why using Latin as a model for English grammar fails. Or, why your grade 6 grammar text was wrong (and most of them still are). "This is the sort of bloody nonsense up with which I will not put", said Churchill, supposedly. But probably not. Read more here: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001702.html And now it's time for me to go the stairs up in order to eat my supper up. [...] -- Best, Wolf K https://kirkwood40.blogspot.com "What good is it having lower taxes when you can’t drink the water?”
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Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2017-04-24 17:18 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-24 17:33 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2017-04-25 09:22 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 09:29 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2017-04-25 10:12 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 10:52 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2017-04-25 12:04 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 12:38 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2017-04-25 18:38 -0500
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 16:47 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2017-04-25 22:17 -0500
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 21:38 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-26 02:03 -0400
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-26 08:54 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2017-04-26 09:23 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-26 09:30 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2017-04-26 11:42 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-26 14:16 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2017-04-26 16:27 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-26 16:39 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2017-04-26 09:16 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-26 09:29 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2017-04-26 17:14 -0400
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-26 14:17 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2017-04-26 16:32 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2017-04-25 17:14 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 18:10 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2017-04-26 09:24 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution "James Wilkinson Sword" <imvalid@somewear.com> - 2017-04-25 18:17 +0100
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Sam E <why.should.this@be.email.invalid> - 2017-04-25 18:24 -0500
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2017-04-25 22:51 -0400
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2017-04-25 18:32 -0500
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 16:53 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Sam E <why.should.this@be.email.invalid> - 2017-04-25 17:59 -0500
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 16:30 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Ron C <r.capik@verizon.net> - 2017-04-25 23:00 -0400
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2017-04-25 22:26 -0500
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2017-04-26 09:28 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> - 2017-04-26 12:35 -0500
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Ken Blake <Ken@invalid.news.com> - 2017-04-26 11:45 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2017-04-26 17:23 -0400
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Char Jackson <none@none.invalid> - 2017-04-26 17:15 -0500
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2017-04-25 22:46 -0400
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2017-04-25 19:54 -0700
Re: Apple told to warn against charging phone in bath after man's electrocution Jonas Eklundh <jonaseklundhsandman@gmail.com> - 2017-04-24 17:35 -0700
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