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  • From: "Sil Greene" <quack AT ibiblio.org>
  • To: "Internetworkers" <internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: RE: [internetworkers] republican email
  • Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 14:54:27 -0400 (EDT)



it's actually a rather acceptable variant; i'm terribly sorry if i've
confused someone's tiny little brain with alternate spellings. may i
suggest sounding the word out phonetically to figure out what i mean?

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=practise


actually, i do have a rather bad habit of preferring british spellings and
grammar conventions over their american counterparts. sadly, as an
american, i'm indoctrinated in my culture's lack of concern for such
shortcomings, and generally ignore the complaints of other americans who
think they're right when they're not. ;)

you have no idea how crazy this drives my writing professors.

--s


bill g wrote:
> Practice, practice, practice. If you keep it up, your spelling might get
> there too.
>
> (Nothing personal; just too good of an opportunity for a wise-crack to
> pass up!)
>
> :-)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:internetworkers-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Sil
> Greene
> Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 2:36 PM
> To: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/
> Subject: Re: [internetworkers] republican email
>
> zman wrote:
>> On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Shea Tisdale wrote:
>>> I got this email from a staunch republican friend of mine.
>>> I guess I should just be so happy that Bush is our president...
>>
>>> Forwarded email follows:
>>> FDR led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us: Japan did.
>>
>> Actually German U-boats did indeed attack and sink US boats w/ loss of
>> life prior to Pearl Harbor. I guess there is no need to dispell some
> of
>> the other non-facts...
>
> i'm actually rather impressed ... our average loss-of-life has steadily
> gone down over the past 60-odd years of warfare ... obviously we're
> getting better at it! you know what they say about practise, practise,
> practise ... one of these days we'll get to the point where we don't
> lose
> anyone in a year!
>
> Thank Gawd GWB is our President(sm)!
> [snort]
>
> --s
>
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