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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 15 Jan 2003.
Re: Nerd Boy, episode 330

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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