I dislike double negatives. Guess that means if would be 'American' to drop
articles and prepositions. :) Dropping a "the" that was never there seems
like a waste of time and keystrokes. :) Redundancies do creep in.
--Pat K
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>From: craig boyle <craig_autox@yahoo.com>
>To: Pat Kelly <lollipop487@attbi.com>, Sethracer@aol.com, kkelly@spss.com,
ba-autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: Accents
>Date: Wed, Dec 5, 2001, 9:53 PM
>
>
>--- Pat Kelly <lollipop487@attbi.com> wrote:
>> The "the" is creeping into the various traffic guys'
>> vocabulary up here.
>> I've been tempted to call and tell them to knock it
>> off!
>
>Yep, it would be un-American to not drop articles and
>prepositions, flatten vowels and verb nouns whenever
>needed ;-)
>
>Craig
>
>> --Pat K
>> P.S. note my new email address, I post with high
>> hopes it will work
>> consistently (hasn't happened yet)
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>> >From: Sethracer@aol.com
>> >To: <kkelly@spss.com>, <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
>> >Subject: RE: Accents
>> >Date: Wed, Dec 5, 2001, 10:56 AM
>> >
>>
>> >Katie writes:
>> >I find accents really fascinating, and all of them
>> possess their own charm.
>> >I wish people would stop moving so much, so there
>> could be some consistency.
>> >
>> >
>> >Okay. Why do Southern California call their
>> freeways "THE 405" and "THE
>> >605", etc.? I don't take "THE 280" up to San
>> Francisco, or "THE 101" to
>> >Gilroy. I take Highway 280 or 101. My daughters
>> used to laugh at the
>> >southerner's naming convention. Both live there
>> right now and use the same
>> >terms. ARRRGH! -Seth
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