In le message del Mon, 04 Jul 2005 22:43:06 GMT, Cgao Coma ha scripte: Hi I recently jumped into this ancient english term, ANTANI, I don't know the meaning, neither the origin. It should concern the tuscan city of Florence (X-posted), but not

What spelling rules? In fact, why is it "spelling" why isn't ... English, and words like these just add to her confusion. Don't worry about it and tell your German friend not to worry about it either. All of us anglophones are

Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004: Enrico C wrote on 21 Nov 2004: Should have been ... absurd, you know please limit your posts to alt.absurd.replies. What do you find so absurd in my reply? That you compare using a talking dictionary or the phonetic

Thanks for that. Very interesting. A very clear rebuttal of Jenkins' proposals. I've read that Jenkins and an Austrian colleague ... those aspects of the different Englishes that cause the sorts of problems you describe above (when

Would you accept "simpler than languages that have more baroque ... least relatively) "simple", I'm not sure what definition you're using. In fact, when I first discussed this subject in fr.lettres.langue.anglaise , I used

"Peter T. Daniels" (Email Removed) wrote on 27 Dec 2003: OP's question has been answered, as well as it can be, by several posters, including at least one with access ... or the translation, is garbled to some extent, so that,

"Raymond S. Wise" (Email Removed) wrote on 17 Nov 2003: (The beginning was dealth with in an earlier post.) Third, the status of the dialect of a given prescriptivist, if it is indeed the dialect which he actually speaks every day, is