Einde O'Callaghan    641325 Tue, 19 Sep 06 12:14 AM UC schrieb: "Good English" is a common synonym for "grammatically correct English which is easily understood and without a strong foreign accent or very strong regional accent". This is what most English speakers would understand by it - and it is considerably shorter and more trenchant. If you don't understand this, then tough - your idiolect is obviously not particularly good English. Einde O'Callaghan Einde O'Callaghan Accents, Synonyms, Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Languages, Idiolect

	UC    824749 Tue, 19 Sep 06 12:41 AM "Correct. So? That does not make "good English" a proper formulation." "More complete nonsense. "Good English" is perfectly good English." Nope. "In The Story of English Robert McCullom found a joyful correlation between English and Friesan, to the point where there ... butter and good cheese Is good English and good Friese There should be a warning about you in the FAQ." ...to which you give frequently wrong answers. UC Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Teaching, Languages

	UC    641340 Tue, 19 Sep 06 02:12 PM "But no such thing as "Speak good English" or "Speak ... no "good Pope Pius X" or "bad Pope Pius X"." "You never heard of "rec(e)ived English", or even of "BBC English"?" Of course. But those terms are not 'good' or 'bad', which are adjectives of quality. Adjectives of description are fine. UC Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Adjectives, Languages

	TOF    641344 Tue, 19 Sep 06 03:29 PM "Is there "good Mt. Rushmore" and "bad Mt. Rushmore"?" "No idea, I've never been. Is there good coffee and bad coffee? Your turn. DC, despite what Google may have folk believe out there." I've found that if when using the google interface, you reply to a post in a group to which you haven't subscribed, Mozilla uses your email ID as the default. In this case, the post you responded to was posted to several NGs. I presume you found the thread on one occasion by doing a search, and got the status you had in the group you found it in. If you find the post by navigating to AUE or some other group in which you have a nick (e.g. "Django Cat") and selecting the link you'll get that nick. TOF TOF

	Anonymous    641355 Tue, 19 Sep 06 05:16 PM Oh, Fer Chrisakes. 'Good English' gets 2,820,000 google hits. Why don't you bugger off and tell all those people they're wrong? DC Anonymous Countries, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Languages