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The continental snail-eaters all think anybody from the next Department (county, the way those in most of the US look at things, a parish down in Boisy's neighborhood) are hicks.  (Yeah, I've got some frog ancestry --or maybe German, depending on how things turn out in the next war, the Alsace-Lorraine changes hands every time),

But when I drop a brick on my foot, I cuss in the Kaybecker I learned from my grandmother who was a nurse in New Hampshire for half a century.  Nurses learn all the bad words and so do their grandkids.  I'll also use all the spanish I learned before that as a child in Los Angeles, the german I learned from my roommate at Georgia Tech and a lot of things I learned from my late father-in-law who was good at many languages even before he joined the OSS after the Navy dropped him due to the injuries he took crossing the beach at Iwo.  (Russian, Polish, Lithuanian, Italian -- a few other languages I'll recall if I drop a brick on my foot, but I won't do that voluntarily)

Day to day, I just cuss in American.  A superset of English, Mexican, Gaelic and everybody else who's improved the gene pool by showing up.  (And it needed some improvement -- my ancestors who arrived in Massachusetts in the 1620s had some serious intellectual deficiencies -- they were going to Virginia and navigating latitude had been a solved problem for a couple of thousand years -- Puritan ancestry is nothing to brag about if you've had anything else to improve the breed; them as brag about that ancestry tend to be the ones still too inbred to have anything else to brag about,)
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Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

"What I know [about the art of the sword] boils down to this:  If you see a guy running at you with a sword, put two rounds in his chest to slow him down, then one into his brain to finish him off".  Aaron Allston, _Sidhe Devil_

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "mike delyea" <mdelyea at gmail.com>
> Its fairly easy to tell Latin constructed words from French
> constructed words (or Spanish, or Italian or Portugese).  Also,
> there's a big difference between Quebecois French and Parisien French.
>  The continental Froggies think our Froggies are hicks.
> 
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 8:47 PM, mike delyea <mdelyea at gmail.com> wrote:
> > The name Norman-French is sometimes used to describe not only the
> > modern Norman language, but also the administrative languages of
> > Anglo-Norman and Law French used in England.
> >
> > ETYMOLOGY:
> > Voir Dire - Anglo-Norman, to speak the truth
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> 
> wrote:
> >> On Sunday 31 August 2008, Neil Morrison wrote:
> >>>----- Original Message -----
> >>>From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
> >>>
> >>>> First, we kill all the lawyers..
> >>>
> >>>No, just remove all licensing for them. A doctor has to decide in seconds
> >>>what to do. What is the hurry with writing words on paper?
> >>>
> >>>They spend $100,000 or more for a 3 year course most agree teaches them
> >>>nothing but makes the colleges rich. Then they have to spend more money to
> >>>pass the bar exams.
> >>>
> >> Oh it teaches them alright, to ignore anything that resembles common sense
> >> that is.  That is why I like my solution better, it has a small chance of
> >> being permanent.
> >>
> >>>They learn by doing, so an apprenticeship system would work much better. A
> >>>few states still allow you to challenge the exam with no school - why not
> >>>all?
> >>>
> >> Good question...  One I don't have a ready answer for.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Cheers, Gene
> >> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> >>  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> >> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> >> A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
> >>
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