From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 11 11:32:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bfm.org (mail.bfm.org [216.127.218.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0916837BACA for ; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 11:32:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@whizkidtech.net) Received: from WhizKid (r18.bfm.org [216.127.220.114]) by mail.bfm.org (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-52399U2500L250S0V35) with SMTP id org; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 13:33:13 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000411133108.00917460@mail85.pair.com> X-Sender: whizkid@mail85.pair.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 13:31:08 -0500 To: Anatoly Vorobey , chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: "G. Adam Stanislav" Subject: Re: BSDCon East In-Reply-To: <20000411195029.00602@techunix.technion.ac.il> References: <38F2D1E7.7119FA0F@mail.ptd.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 19:50 11-04-2000 +0200, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: >As another random example, speakers of Slavic languages often find >it intensely difficult to remember and obey the time-shift rules in >English, or the no-double-negatives rule. Hey, I never had no problem with no double negative! :) I'd say that rule is easier to follow for speakers of Slavic languages than for many a native English speaker. At least in America, many people break that rule (along with many others, e.g. saying "he don't", or even "we was" though that one is not too common) all the time. Remember the movie Twelve Angry Men? Where eleven of the jurors were ready to condemn an innocent man for a variety of reasons? One of the jurors was ready to convict him arguing that "he don't even speak good English." Cheers, Adam ----------------------------------------------------------- "I think, therefore I am." - Seventeenth Century Philosophy "I publish what I think, therefore I have." - Twenty-First Century Action Details at http://www.OnlinePublisher.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message