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  *** High Priority Direct Client Requirements::::::::Plz revert without cjanging the subject line *** "madanlal@iconsoftgroup.com" <csmdl.iitm@gmail.com> - 2012-03-15 10:52 -0700
    Re: incompetent headhunter spam Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-15 20:29 -0400
      Re: incompetent headhunter spam dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2012-03-16 19:10 +1300
        Re: incompetent headhunter spam Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-03-16 11:35 +0100
          Re: incompetent headhunter spam Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-16 13:59 +0000
            Re: incompetent headhunter spam dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2012-03-17 14:12 +1300
              Re: incompetent headhunter spam Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-03-17 09:38 -0400
              Re: incompetent headhunter spam Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-03-18 15:50 +0100
      Re: incompetent headhunter spam Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-03-16 11:39 -0400
        Re: incompetent headhunter spam Kaiden Nediak <kaiden@easilyaddicted.com> - 2012-03-16 12:05 -0700
          Re: incompetent headhunter spam Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2012-03-16 18:17 -0500
            Re: incompetent headhunter spam Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-03-17 08:04 -0400
              Re: incompetent headhunter spam Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-03-17 12:11 -0400
              Re: incompetent headhunter spam John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2012-03-17 21:46 -0700
                Re: incompetent headhunter spam Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-03-18 08:47 -0400
                  Re: incompetent headhunter spam Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-03-18 15:48 +0100
                    Re: incompetent headhunter spam Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-03-18 12:32 -0400
                      Re: incompetent headhunter spam Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis@gmail.com> - 2012-03-18 09:39 -0800
                        Re: incompetent headhunter spam Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-03-18 21:21 +0100
                          Re: incompetent headhunter spam Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-03-18 16:48 -0400
                    Re: incompetent headhunter spam dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-03-19 07:31 +1100
                      Re: incompetent headhunter spam Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-03-19 08:04 -0400
                        Re: incompetent headhunter spam Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2012-03-19 07:41 -0700
                      Re: incompetent headhunter spam Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-03-19 14:06 +0100
                        Re: incompetent headhunter spam Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-03-19 10:51 -0400
                          Re: incompetent headhunter spam Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-03-19 16:19 +0100
                          Re: incompetent headhunter spam Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-03-20 12:08 +0100
                        Re: incompetent headhunter spam dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-03-20 06:25 +1100
              Re: incompetent headhunter spam Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-03-18 15:42 +0100
            Re: incompetent headhunter spam Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-03-18 15:41 +0100
              Re: incompetent headhunter spam Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-18 16:26 +0000
                Re: incompetent headhunter spam Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-03-18 12:45 -0400
                Re: incompetent headhunter spam Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-03-18 21:09 +0100
                  Re: incompetent headhunter spam nospam@see.signature (Richard Maine) - 2012-03-18 13:32 -0700
                    Re: incompetent headhunter spam Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-03-19 13:48 +0100
                  Re: incompetent headhunter spam Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-19 10:07 +0000
                    Re: incompetent headhunter spam Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-03-19 14:03 +0100
                      Re: incompetent headhunter spam nospam@see.signature (Richard Maine) - 2012-03-19 07:36 -0700
                        Re: incompetent headhunter spam Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-19 22:30 -0400
                          Re: incompetent headhunter spam nospam@see.signature (Richard Maine) - 2012-03-19 21:11 -0700
                        Re: incompetent headhunter spam Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-03-20 12:02 +0100
                          Re: incompetent headhunter spam Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2012-03-20 13:13 -0400
                            Re: incompetent headhunter spam Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-03-21 11:36 +0100
                      Re: incompetent headhunter spam Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2012-03-19 07:44 -0700
                        Re: incompetent headhunter spam Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> - 2012-03-20 11:57 +0100
                          He who laughs last .... Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-20 16:43 -0400
                            Re: He who laughs last .... Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-03-20 17:05 -0400
                            Re: He who laughs last .... Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org> - 2012-03-20 17:27 -0400
                              Re: He who laughs last .... Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2012-03-20 20:29 -0400
                                Re: He who laughs last .... Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2012-03-20 17:55 -0700
                                Re: He who laughs last .... Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2012-03-21 01:18 +0000
                                Re: He who laughs last .... Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-21 09:20 +0000
                                  Re: He who laughs last .... Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2012-03-21 13:21 -0400
                                    Re: He who laughs last .... Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2012-03-21 17:27 +0000
                                Re: He who laughs last .... John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2012-03-21 10:42 -0700
                              Re: He who laughs last .... Ira Lieberman <iml.removethis@cfl.rr.com> - 2012-03-20 23:13 -0400
                          Re: incompetent headhunter spam Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-03-20 17:20 -0400
                            Re: incompetent headhunter spam Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2012-03-20 16:15 -0700
              Re: incompetent headhunter spam dorayme <dorayme@optusnet.com.au> - 2012-03-19 07:21 +1100
            Re: incompetent headhunter spam russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto) - 2012-03-19 01:07 +0000
        Re: incompetent headhunter spam Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-16 22:57 -0400
      Re: incompetent headhunter spam Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-03-16 16:40 -0400
        Re: incompetent headhunter spam Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-16 22:59 -0400
          Re: incompetent headhunter spam Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-03-17 09:39 -0400
            Re: incompetent headhunter spam Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> - 2012-03-18 00:36 -0400
              Re: incompetent headhunter spam Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> - 2012-03-18 10:15 -0400

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#22547 — Re: incompetent headhunter spam

On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 07:36:39 -0700, Richard Maine wrote:

> Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> wrote:
> 
>> I really ought to get an English grammar book myself.  I think I knew
>> all the tenses when I was at school, but I didn't realise that English
>> even had a subjunctive until we came across subjunctives in French. 
>> Yes we'd come across it in Latin before that, but it somehow hadn't
>> clicked.
>> 
>> In my experience most folks don't consciously know the grammar rules of
>> their own language, they just know what sounds right and what doesn't.
> 
> My Latin teacher told the class that English didn't have a subjunctive.
> After it started clicking with me, I realized that the Latin teacher
> didn't really understand the English usage herself.

A couple of my Latin teachers were pretty stubborn about even trying to 
understand other languages.  They were either incapable of pronouncing 
foreign names properly or just plain stubborn.
 
> I learned pretty much all of my formal English grammar in Latin class.
> My subconscious speaking knowledge of English was pretty good, but I
> didn't know the formalities before then, our so-called English grammar
> classes having been worthless.

Latin helped me greatly when it came to learning German and Russian.  In 
contrast, my sister who didn't do Latin had great difficulty with the 
German dative case, as did many of the native Spanish speakers in my 
German classes here in Switzerland.

And yes, I remember very little English grammar being taught after 
primary school.


-- 
Paul Sture

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#22550 — Re: incompetent headhunter spam

In article <tm4m39-ob.ln1@news.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> 
wrote:

> And yes, I remember very little English grammar being taught after 
> primary school.

I've always said that the only useful things I learned in high school 
were typing and the proper use of the French subjunctive. The past 
anterior I learned later. 

J'eus été appris, as it were.
-- 

... do not cover a warm kettle or your stock may sour. -- Julia Child

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#22580 — Re: incompetent headhunter spam

On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:13:04 -0400, Warren Oates wrote:

> In article <tm4m39-ob.ln1@news.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch>
> wrote:
> 
>> And yes, I remember very little English grammar being taught after
>> primary school.
> 
> I've always said that the only useful things I learned in high school
> were typing and the proper use of the French subjunctive. The past
> anterior I learned later.
> 
> J'eus été appris, as it were.

I learned calculus, physics and chemistry, with German and Russian as 
minor subjects, but there was a sort of dead year when I was 16/17 which 
seemed to concentrate on doing boring repetitive stuff.  That year did 
however teach me the patience and attention to detail to pore through 
system dumps once I got into IT.

-- 
Paul Sture

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#22510 — Re: incompetent headhunter spam

In article <8dnj39-55o.ln1@news.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> 
wrote:

> I really ought to get an English grammar book myself.  I think I knew 
> all the tenses when I was at school, but I didn't realise that English 
> even had a subjunctive until we came across subjunctives in French.  Yes 
> we'd come across it in Latin before that, but it somehow hadn't clicked.

A friend reports that he was in a Boston taxi last week, and because he'd 
heard about all the great seafood available in the area, he asked the 
cabbie, "Say, where can I get scrod around here?"

The cabbie laughed and said, "I've been asked that question a thousand 
times, but never in the pluperfect subjunctive."

-- 
Tea Party Patriots is to Patriotism as 
People's Democratic Republic is to Democracy.

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#22546 — Re: incompetent headhunter spam

On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 07:44:08 -0700, Michelle Steiner wrote:

> In article <8dnj39-55o.ln1@news.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch>
> wrote:
> 
>> I really ought to get an English grammar book myself.  I think I knew
>> all the tenses when I was at school, but I didn't realise that English
>> even had a subjunctive until we came across subjunctives in French. 
>> Yes we'd come across it in Latin before that, but it somehow hadn't
>> clicked.
> 
> A friend reports that he was in a Boston taxi last week, and because
> he'd heard about all the great seafood available in the area, he asked
> the cabbie, "Say, where can I get scrod around here?"
> 
> The cabbie laughed and said, "I've been asked that question a thousand
> times, but never in the pluperfect subjunctive."

That's good. :-)



-- 
Paul Sture

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#22555 — He who laughs last ....

.... didn't get the joke.

On 03-20-2012 06:57, Paul Sture wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 07:44:08 -0700, Michelle Steiner wrote:
>> A friend reports that he was in a Boston taxi last week, and because
>> he'd heard about all the great seafood available in the area, he asked
>> the cabbie, "Say, where can I get scrod around here?"
>>
>> The cabbie laughed and said, "I've been asked that question a thousand
>> times, but never in the pluperfect subjunctive."
>
> That's good. :-)

I thought for a while, then said to myself, "I don't see _any_ kind of 
subjunctive there."  Had to see it quoted the next day before I got it.

Like the time I was driving to an autoparts store and picked up a 
hitchhiker.  My mind was occupied with how much trouble a friend's 
Datsun was giving me, so when she said, "I need some bucks for a head 
job," I responded, "Sorry, I spent it all doing the head on a Datsun."

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw her mouth drop open, then I realized 
what she meant.  I managed to keep a straight face while she processed 
that.  (Wonder if she thought I said dachsund?)  Then, "Let me out at 
this bus stop here."

Guess I don't spend enough time in the gutter.

-- 
Wes Groleau

    Nobody believes a theoretical analysis — except the guy who did it.
    Everybody believes an experimental analysis — except the guy who did it.
                                  — Unknown

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#22556 — Re: He who laughs last ....

On 2012-03-20 16:43 , Wes Groleau wrote:

> was giving me, so when she said, "I need some bucks for a head job," I
> responded, "Sorry, I spent it all doing the head on a Datsun."
>
> Out of the corner of my eye, I saw her mouth drop open, then I realized
> what she meant. I managed to keep a straight face while she processed
> that. (Wonder if she thought I said dachsund?) Then, "Let me out at this
> bus stop here."
>
> Guess I don't spend enough time in the gutter.

Hitchike whores are more subtle here.

"Où allez-vous?"
"Nulle part.  Je vends."
"Vous vendez quoi?"
"L'amour!"

-- 
"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did.
  I said I didn't know."
                           -Samuel Clemens.

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#22561 — Re: He who laughs last ....

In article <jkaq5u$dro$1@dont-email.me>,
 Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> wrote:

> I thought for a while, then said to myself, "I don't see _any_ kind of 
> subjunctive there."

Crossing state lines for immoral porpoises is the pluperfect 
_subversive_.

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#22565 — Re: He who laughs last ....

Wes Groleau:
> > I thought for a while, then said to myself, "I don't see _any_ kind of 
> > subjunctive there."

Fred Moore:
> Crossing state lines for immoral porpoises is the pluperfect 
> _subversive_.

We have a law about that. It's called the White Slave Traffic Act.
Congress has modified it once or twice, but in its /original/ form it
said this, inter alia:

If a man said to a woman "Say, I hear there's an inspiring new preacher
across the state line in God City, Arkansas. Why don't we go and hear
what he has to say?" and the pair dress up in their Sunday best and
head for the church in God City, but along the way the Devil gets into
the car and makes them stop at a motel along the way and screw their
brains out, everything's cool, because the man did not transport the
woman across the state line for an immoral /purpose/ .

If, however, a man said to a woman "Say, babe, let's go check into that
motel across the line by God City, Arkansas, and screw our brains out!"
and she says "OK!" and off they go, but along the way an Angel of the
Lord gets into the car and makes them feel guilty about their plan to
commit a heinous sin, so they decide to go to the God City Baptist
Church to hear the sermon instead, everything is /not/ cool. The man
transported the woman across the state line for an immoral /purpose/
and could have been subjected to prosecution under the White Slave
Traffic Act.

The purpose of the WSTA was to punish people in general for
fornication, but especially to persecute black men. See Jack Johnson.
Now we have other ways of persecuting blacks, and today, in the absence
of a federal prohibition on polygamy, the WSTA is primarily used
against polygamist Mormon sub-cults.

And so it goes with superstition-based governing.

-- 
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm

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#22568 — Re: He who laughs last ....

In article <200320122029464851%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.net> wrote:

> We have a law about that. It's called the White Slave Traffic Act. 
> Congress has modified it once or twice, but in its /original/ form it 
> said this, inter alia:

I was about to say that you're describing the Mann Act, but I checked, and 
they're two different names for the same law.

-- 
Tea Party Patriots is to Patriotism as 
People's Democratic Republic is to Democracy.

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#22569 — Re: He who laughs last ....

In article <200320122029464851%star@sky.net>, Davoud  <aaa@bbb.ccc> wrote:
>Wes Groleau:
>> > I thought for a while, then said to myself, "I don't see _any_ kind of 
>> > subjunctive there."
>
>Fred Moore:
>> Crossing state lines for immoral porpoises is the pluperfect 
>> _subversive_.
>
>We have a law about that. It's called the White Slave Traffic Act.

Ummmm....I think you didn't read Fred's posting carefully...


Patty

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#22579 — Re: He who laughs last ....

In article <200320122029464851%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.net> 
wrote:

> Wes Groleau:
> > > I thought for a while, then said to myself, "I don't see _any_ kind of 
> > > subjunctive there."
> 
> Fred Moore:
> > Crossing state lines for immoral porpoises is the pluperfect 
> > _subversive_.
> 
> We have a law about that. It's called the White Slave Traffic Act.

Fortunately we've never needed such a law. But judging by the hoo-hah 
surrounding this Florida business, lunatic laws are still being passed.

-- 
Tim

"That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed,
nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted"  --  Bill of Rights 1689

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#22599 — Re: He who laughs last ....

Fred Moore:
> > > Crossing state lines for immoral porpoises is the pluperfect 
> > > _subversive_.

Davoud:
> > We have a law about that. It's called the White Slave Traffic Act.

Tim Streater:
> Fortunately we've never needed such a law. But judging by the hoo-hah 
> surrounding this Florida business, lunatic laws are still being passed.

If you live in the U.S.A. or its territories you have such a law
whether you need it or not. The White Slave Traffic Act is federal law.

-- 
I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm

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#22601 — Re: He who laughs last ....

In article <210320121321448740%star@sky.net>, Davoud <star@sky.net> 
wrote:

> Fred Moore:
> > > > Crossing state lines for immoral porpoises is the pluperfect 
> > > > _subversive_.
> 
> Davoud:
> > > We have a law about that. It's called the White Slave Traffic Act.
> 
> Tim Streater:
> > Fortunately we've never needed such a law. But judging by the hoo-hah 
> > surrounding this Florida business, lunatic laws are still being passed.
> 
> If you live in the U.S.A. or its territories you have such a law
> whether you need it or not. The White Slave Traffic Act is federal law.

Since I don't, it's moot. But my comments re: Florida still stand.

-- 
Tim

"That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed,
nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted"  --  Bill of Rights 1689

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#22602 — Re: He who laughs last ....

On 3/20/12   PDT 5:29 PM, Davoud wrote:

> The purpose of the WSTA was to punish people in general for
> fornication, but especially to persecute black men. See Jack Johnson.
> Now we have other ways of persecuting blacks, and today, in the absence
> of a federal prohibition on polygamy, the WSTA is primarily used
> against polygamist Mormon sub-cults.


The Mann act, while having been used for reprehensible purposes 
(targeting for race or creed), was not "purposed" for such. Nor against 
fornication per se, but to protect minor women from predators, however 
ineffective it might be on that score. Sure, some nuts would like to 
prevent thee and me from all fornication, some of whom are preachers or 
lawmen.

I liked your examples of purpose, but in the latter one, like moving 
picks in BB or lacrosse, there has to be contact before a foul is called!

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#22574 — Re: He who laughs last ....

On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:27:34 -0400, Fred Moore <fmoore@gcfn.org>
wrote:

>In article <jkaq5u$dro$1@dont-email.me>,
> Wes Groleau <Groleau+news@FreeShell.org> wrote:
>
>> I thought for a while, then said to myself, "I don't see _any_ kind of 
>> subjunctive there."
>
>Crossing state lines for immoral porpoises is the pluperfect 
>_subversive_.

IIRC, in that particular instance, the porpoises were immortal, not
immoral.  But what's important is that people not get tensed up.   q8)

=IML=

Moogs!  Would you buy it for a quarter?

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#22559 — Re: incompetent headhunter spam

On 2012-03-20 06:57 , Paul Sture wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 07:44:08 -0700, Michelle Steiner wrote:
>
>> In article<8dnj39-55o.ln1@news.sture.ch>, Paul Sture<paul@sture.ch>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I really ought to get an English grammar book myself.  I think I knew
>>> all the tenses when I was at school, but I didn't realise that English
>>> even had a subjunctive until we came across subjunctives in French.
>>> Yes we'd come across it in Latin before that, but it somehow hadn't
>>> clicked.
>>
>> A friend reports that he was in a Boston taxi last week, and because
>> he'd heard about all the great seafood available in the area, he asked
>> the cabbie, "Say, where can I get scrod around here?"
>>
>> The cabbie laughed and said, "I've been asked that question a thousand
>> times, but never in the pluperfect subjunctive."
>
> That's good. :-)

Yesterday's fish.

I heard this in HS English (in a French HS) a long time ago and possibly 
in a galaxy far, far away.

-- 
"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did.
  I said I didn't know."
                           -Samuel Clemens.

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#22563 — Re: incompetent headhunter spam

In article <T5WdnUnfL5EAafXSnZ2dnUVZ_qadnZ2d@giganews.com>,
 Alan Browne <alan.browne@FreelunchVideotron.ca> wrote:

> >>> I really ought to get an English grammar book myself.  I think I 
> >>> knew all the tenses when I was at school, but I didn't realise that 
> >>> English even had a subjunctive until we came across subjunctives in 
> >>> French. Yes we'd come across it in Latin before that, but it somehow 
> >>> hadn't clicked.
> >>
> >> A friend reports that he was in a Boston taxi last week, and because 
> >> he'd heard about all the great seafood available in the area, he 
> >> asked the cabbie, "Say, where can I get scrod around here?"
> >>
> >> The cabbie laughed and said, "I've been asked that question a 
> >> thousand times, but never in the pluperfect subjunctive."
> >
> > That's good. :-)
> 
> Yesterday's fish.
> 
> I heard this in HS English (in a French HS) a long time ago and possibly 
> in a galaxy far, far away.

I never claimed that it was original or even new; seeing "subjunctive" in 
the top quote reminded me of the joke, which I, too, had heard and/or read 
many decades ago.

-- 
Tea Party Patriots is to Patriotism as 
People's Democratic Republic is to Democracy.

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#22479 — Re: incompetent headhunter spam

In article <mp8h39-e0h.ln1@news.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul@sture.ch> 
wrote:

>  I finally came to 
> the conclusion that in my own case it was the way I was taught foreign 
> languages: the emphasis was firmly on the written word, grammar and 
> spelling, and we did next to no conversation in classes.

For all the Latin classes I attended, it was not till I did Latin at a 
university - in the days when you had to do a foreign language for 
some degrees - that I heard a really fluent Latin speaker in the form 
of a Classics lecturer, (not that some of my Latin school teachers 
were not mildly impressive}. The lecturer at least tried to get us to 
read things out properly and to converse with us in the ancient corpse.

-- 
dorayme

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#22493 — Re: incompetent headhunter spam

In article <timmcn-2E2510.18174416032012@news.iphouse.com>,
Tim McNamara  <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote:
>In article <4f638efb$0$2063$c3e8da3$fdf4f6af@news.astraweb.com>,
> Kaiden Nediak <kaiden@easilyaddicted.com> wrote:
>
>> Sadly what we have here is an "India" based spammer. That's how the 
>> majority of them speak english. I say this being someone who works 
>> pretty extensively with off-shore based companies and after hundreds 
>> of them say revert when they mean reply you get a feel for their 
>> "language" skills as they call it =)
>
>Do you speak Hindi/Urdu as well as they do?
>
>Why is it that so many English speakers in particular assume that the 
>entire world should speak their language?  Perhaps native Anglophones 
>are the ones lacking "language" skills.

Hey, if you're spamming English speakers, you should have the courtesy
to speak English.  You don't see me out there spamming people in
broken Gujrati, do you?  (If you do, let me know, someone's stolen my
account).
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The problem with socialism is there's always 
someone with less ability and more need.

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