Ron Johnson wrote:
While we're on the subject of unusual spelling variants, can someone explain why, in American English, "moron" is spelt "bush" ;)On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 23:54 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:38, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:I should probably clarify for the international audience that Ron is using sarcasm, a form of deadpan humor. Ron is probably more apathetic about spelling than his words let on.On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:47, Ron Johnson wrote:With a u, you mean, of course...No, the *right* way. Slow learners *and* bad spellers. Sheesh... No wonder your empire fell apart.That is very rude to say on a public mailing list. I agree that everyone is entitled to their opinion. May be you are right and may be you are wrong. But this could potentially result in flame wars. May be you meant it in a funny way! But this is taking it too far. Not everyone might take it as you intended it to.Yes, thank you. I was trying and miserably failing to be humourous.
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Peter Hugosson-Miller "<TAG name="windoze" action="bash"></tag>"