From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: no@spam.com (Denny) Subject: Re: English SUCKS, Chinese is the only language you need!! Date: 1997/11/27 Message-ID: <347cdba1.1452822@news.texas.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 293043122 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <3471428A.6193@erdw.ethz.ch> <64sql2$k0@mtinsc04.worldnet.att.net> <3471F184.7924@mWilden.com> <64vc2j$bbt$1@helios.crest.nt.com> Organization: Texas Networking, Inc. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-11-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 19 Nov 1997 10:44:35 -0800, kaz@helios.crest.nt.com (Kaz Kylheku) wrote: >>2) "spoke" should be "spoken." > >Touche. That could be a typo. No native speaker of English would say ``I have >understood and (I have) spoke'' unless he or she happened to blunder. It's >awfully faulty parallelism. :) > >- Kaz (an English speaker since the age of twelve). No native speaker of English would make such a blunder? Blunder implies unintentional. Evidently you be forgetting about Ebonics. I be, you be, he be, we be, they be. All correct and proper in some circles. ;-)