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You're using wrong incorrectly
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Saw a t-shirt recently printed with:
There and Their
They're Not the Same
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How do you console a grammarian: There, their, they're. 
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A noble and valiant attempt but an impossible one, language never stays the same and evolves continuously.
If I compare the sort of things you get to hear when they show snippets on TV from, for example, the news in the 50's and 60's its very different from what we hear today.
Around here there is a lot of discussion these days the use of AN (standard or formal dutch) and dialects.
One group insists on the use of AN while others prefer dialects.
For the past 50 years schools have rigidly tried to enforce the use of AN and now people are complaining that our rich variety of dialects is disappearing.  What else did they expect ?
Dialects are also disappearing because people are more mobile, communicate a lot more and see/hear a lot of stuff from very diverse sources than they used to.
It will keep changing, it happened with UK/Irish/Scottisch/American/Australian/Canadian/... English and equally with Afrikan/Flemisch/Dutch.
In the last case Dutch as spoken in the Netherlands and Flanders officially sticks to AN but still TV channels on both sides of the border usually provide subtitles for TV shows they air from the other side of the border. Something a lot of people do not like either but is ultimately inevitable.
Lots of grumbling as well about more and more "English" words being used here, not to mention youngsters extensively using "SMS" language.
No matter, it is inevitable and a hundred years from now people looking a current day newspaper will find them just as archaic as we do when we see when we see a reprint from 1914 (we got to see quite a few of those because of the 100th anniversary of the "great war").
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What I find interesting is if you say to yourself "I won't use this word" then it forces you to think of other words you can, and possibly should, use. It's a divergent exercise in that it expands the range of one's vocabulary instead of a convergent exercise where the wordset used shrinks.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Jokes apart, after spending the best part of a decade in non-English speaking countries I found my everyday vocabulary had shrunk. I stopped using what we would term as rich language as it would not be understood and so failed at the first hurdle.
When I returned to the UK, I had to relearn to speak proper like what I do now.
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You speak real good.
Actually I feel like that now. I can't use any of the rich, colourful terms we have in Oz becuase I just get blank stares, or worse: they just pick a random interpretation of what they think I said and go with it.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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"They just pick a random interpretation of what they think I said and go with it"
See what you get for actually talking to users?
Software Zen: delete this;
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Chris Maunder wrote: hey just pick a random interpretation of what they think I said and go with it.
Isn't that always the case? 
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Quote: The Death of English as we know it...
As who knows it - the originators or the bastardisers?
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There's an 'originator' of English? I'd love to meet him and have a few words about how he got some parts of his initial design wrong.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Youngin's is not a word.
It is improper to start a sentence with And.
Please do not coach people.
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Colborne_Greg wrote: Youngin's is not a word.
And?
Colborne_Greg wrote: It is improper to start a sentence with And.
Er ....
Colborne_Greg wrote: Please do not coach people.
Are we then to coach dogs, elephants, vultures? No sense your words make.
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It makes sense to intelligent people.
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Then I suggest you relearn the English language.
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There's a lot of bad English in your post. I pity those you're leading.
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Hi All,
Some regulars will be aware of a cluster elephant I have to fix. It seems that the powers that be have finally heeded my advice and have allowed me to rewrite it finally but I have to get something out by Friday (there goes anything I had planned for the evening this week). It's not my fault no one got back to me when I asked a question. Why...
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Sleep: overrated.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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At least I haven't got work out the previous work!
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...finally...
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Oh do it in VB because we know how to mod that? Mod? the abortion I was presented with?? 
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Tell them it can't be done by friday unless you get all next week off with pay (and those off hours are not deducted from your available PTO time).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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