From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Apr 20 22:53:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA03501 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 22:53:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA03448; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 05:52:43 GMT (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with UUCP id HAA08242; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 07:52:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id HAA27072; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 07:25:21 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980421072521.43822@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 07:25:21 +0200 From: J Wunsch To: FreeBSD chat list Cc: danny@panda.hilink.com.au, jak@cetlink.net, peter@netplex.com.au, des@FreeBSD.ORG, "Alok K. Dhir" Subject: Re: Correct English style Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: ; from Alok K. Dhir on Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 09:48:30AM -0400 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org (Moved to -chat) As Alok K. Dhir wrote: > On Sat, 18 Apr 1998 danny@panda.hilink.com.au wrote: > > > When someone who learnt English as a second language corrects English > ^^^^^^ > > That's "learned". :-) Nope, at least by the time when i went to school, both the regular and the irregular past tense form of `learn' have been valid. IIRC, with a tendency to consider the regular form being `more modern'. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message