Oh please! I joined this when the servers were down. I love to be a troll. I do it all the time on Groklaw, and paraphrased my wikipedia profile there. Generally I am more comfortable lurking on this list, and I would hope that most of us are experienced enough to understand that any discussion of English, its dialects and origins, stands a very good chance of disintegrating the way this has. Please let's try to be edifying.
On 9/20/05, Rowan Collins rowan.collins@gmail.com wrote:
I can only respond that "I will fight you on the beaches..." [I'm sure you know the rest] ;)
On 20/09/05, Giuseppe DAngelo pippudoz@yahoo.it wrote:
English a germanic language? Impossible! An absurd notion! Lunacy!
Exaggeration! Unadulterated opinionated insanity! Essentially misdirected ill conceived viewpoints. Troublesome tempestuous tapestries. As tasteless as a tarty tarantella. Significantly senseless. Quintessentially unquotable. Positively preposterous. Necessarily nonplussed and nominally abnormal. Exponentially and exceedingly uneventful. Undeveloped, uncorroborated, irresponsible, and finally, bountifully morally bankrupt. I opine that I have proven my point.
-- Rowan Collins BSc [IMSoP] _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list Wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l