Makes my lawn unsightly

[Ronald Butters]

Which particular universal proclamation is unliked by you and why? It seems to me that universal proclamations are useful to the extent that they are true.

How long it should take to adjust to this "unfamiliar environment" is a matter of opinion, and mine apparently differs from yours. I don't think that I flipped the lid (I put a lot less energy into my initial protrest than you have in vibrating me), though I may have (hopefully) nipped-in-the-bud or (perhaps more aptly) chopped-a-bit-at-the-kudzu.

On Mar 19, 2012, at 1:00 PM, Victor Steinbok wrote:

> Ron--I'm not defending Larry here. I know that recycling old and common
> finds can be irritating. But I don't like your universal proclamations
> either.
>
> And you should give people time to adjust to an unfamiliar
> environment--you've been just as irritated at me in the past. But
> flipping the lid over a couple of throw-away one-liners is not helpful.
> [And, yes, I'm fully aware I'm posting this to the full list.]
>
>    VS-)
>
> On 3/19/2012 12:44 PM, Ronald Butters wrote:
>> What is interesting about writing "your" for "you're"? This is a common =
>> mistake, one that is frequently commented on even in elementary =
>> textbooks. Why should we be interested in hearing that some random guy =
>> finds this irritating? I find it a lot more irritating to open an  =
>> e-mail and find a short list of mistakes that everyone already knows =
>> about and/or that have no further point to make other than that of their =
>> bare existence?=20
>>
>> I grant you that "throw" for "throe" is probably some kind of eggcorn. I =
>> would predict that it has long-ago been listed in the index. So why =
>> mention it again?
>>
>> And we do have "accorns"--471,000 raw google hits. Some of these may be =
>> slips of the pen, and some are semi-puns.
>
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