Re: Nerd Boy, episode 330
Tom Bampton wrote in message ... > >"Anonymous" <gue...@guest.net> wrote in message >news:b03isp$7cv$1...@pheidippides.axion.bt.co.uk... >> Joaquim G�ndara wrote in message ... >> >See? Perfect example of the inadequacies of English. Did I mean >> >"[how] [crazy people] [get]" or "[how crazy] [people] [get]"? >> >> Yup >> >> It's a crap language; kudos to all who manage to learn it after having >> learned their own much more simple and better-defined languages. >> >> OK - you've heard of "'i' before 'e' except after 'c'", right ? >> >> Name as many words as you can where that rule applies. >> >> "Receive" for one... >> >> Any others, anyone ? > >friend, fiend, worried, wield, and many more. > >What ? Well, you didnt say which PART of the rule! > >T. > >:) Smartass ;o) OK, so how's about the part where you get "CEI" in that order in words as part of the rule ? Like in "Receive" (which is my only example)... -- Graeme Porter -^-_ _ / [_][_]_:_ Proud owner of a 1978 /| _||_ v Pearl Fiberglass Shell kit | / \ | -=/=\\____//=\=jaa "I married Miss right, I just didn't know her first name was 'Always'" -- Anonymous
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