J G Miller wrote:

It is all to do with the inevitable consonant and vowel shifting that
occurs in dialects and languages, something like

formally he would have

can become he would avv

which becomes he would aff

which become he would of


A lot (which I was taught not use) of things have changed in the last 50
years and English has mutated. In my case, I don't really care, I try to
use what I remember is proper grammar, but sometimes I am behind the times
or fail.

You can imagine my shock the first time I read that someone was gifted a
blender and other modernizations that have occured in the last decade.

But, sometimes I am just being a wise guy because on the internet no one
notices, and one can break the rules, such as starting a sentence with but.

On that note on a local mailing list, someone asked:

"Many people have been recomending me to study to become a technical
writer. Does anyone know anything about it? Is there a demand in Israel?
Whats the pay like? How advanced does my English have to be?"

I wrote back "Your English is not good enough."

He never even said thank you.

Geoff.



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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, N3OWJ/4X1GM
My high blood pressure medicine reduces my midichlorian count. :-(