Posted on 09/05/2013 10:24:15 AM PDT by Victoria Bingham
The prrotective eye pwtch i had to wewy suring the night was a real bother, but i love being able to see!
Nully took the right lens out of mmy glasses so I dont have to struggle with blurred vision. He’s pretty cool to have around.
My follow up appointment is at 0930 after which, we will go to the car show on Water Street i have to get my computer and camera and will have pics ofNully and me later today.
I corrected the errors, but they didnt take. Ungh!
That's okay. We understand that you have to be vewy, vewy quiet.
Haha. I can see you, now, Bob.
I hope my mechanic is at the car show today. I need to get Mr. Bill over to him ASAP. I really miss my truck!
It might be worthwhile to look at some used parts. For that vintage, they’re a lot cheaper.
Things like heads and distributor will undoubtedly have some mileage on them, but that wasn’t the reason they ended up in the used parts bin.
And you can buy three used parts for the cost of one new. So there might be a way to get your motor running at a lower cost.
You should definitely get that valve taken care of. They don’t get better by themselves.
Good morning!
Great news and lol!
I have to let Jesse fix it the way he sees best. I dont want to insult him. He is a good mechanic, and has always done right for me.
I will stop by the house and get my computer on the way to the car show. That will be so much easier than this!
It was 58 degrees this morning when i woke up!
Regional dialects do create non standard Grammar from time to time.
As for a second language, i haven't even mastered this one yet. :)
Yeah, I hear you about that mastering just the primary language thing.. Plus, as it’s been said, Americans and Brits are separated by a common language.
(I took a bit of flack for teasing you, old bean! I left a letter off of my comment and you’d think I’d have shot a hole through a Ferrari or something.)
"Ye Olde Frappé Shoppe", for example.
I try to conserve my leters. That’s what they’re always harping at us, right? “Conserve, conserve, conserve!” So I usually keep my leters few in response: “FO!”
:^)
(Now, excuse me, I have a Ferrari to go shoot...)
First published: 1946
MEIHEM IN CE KLASRUM by Dolton Edwards
BECAUSE WE ARE STILL BEARING SOME OF THE SCARS OF OUR BRIEF SKIRMISH with II-B English, it is natural that we should be enchanted by Mr. George Bernard Shaw's current campaign for a simplified alphabet.
Obviously, as Mr. Shaw points out, English spelling is in much need of a general overhauling and streamlining. However, our own resistance to any changes requiring a large expenditure of mental effort in the near future would cause us to view with some apprehension the possibility of some day receiving a morning paper printed in-to us-Greek.
Our own plan would achieve the same end as the legislation proposed by Mr. Shaw, but in a less shocking manner, as it consists merely of an acceleration of the normal processes by which the language is continually modernized.
As a catalytic agent, we would suggest that a National Easy Language Week be proclaimed, which the President would inaugurate, outlining some short cut to concentrate on during the week, and to be adopted during the ensuing year. All school children would be given a holiday, the lost time being the equivalent of that gained by the spelling short cut.
In 1946, for example, we would urge the elimination of the soft c, for which we would substitute "s." Sertainly, such an improvement would be selebrated in all sivic-minded sircles as being suffisiently worth the trouble, and students in all sities in the land would be reseptive to- ward any change eliminating the nesessity of learning the differense be- tween the two letters.
In 1947, sinse only the hard "c" would be left, it would be possible to substitute "k" for it, both letters being pronounsed identikally. Imagine how greatly only two years of this prosess would klarify the konfusion in the minds of students. Already we would have eliminated an entire letter from the alphabet. Typewriters and linotypes, kould all be built with one less letter, and a11 the manpower and materials previously devoted to making "c's" kould be turned toward raising the national standard of living.
In the fase of so many notable improvements, it is easy to foresee that by 1948, "National Easy Language Week" would be a pronounsed sukses. All skhool tshildren would be looking forward with konsiderable exsitement to the holiday, and in a blaze of national publisity it would be announsed that the double konsonant "ph" no longer existed, and that the sound would henseforth be written "f" in all words, This would make sutsh words as "fonograf" twenty persent shorter in print.
By 1949, public interest in a fonetik alfabet kan be expekted to have inkreased to the point where a more radikal step forward kan be taken without fear of undue kritisism. We would therefore urge the elimination, at that time of al unesesary double leters, whitsh, although quite harmles, have always ben a nuisanse in the language and a desided deterent to akurate speling. Try it yourself in the next leter you write, and se if both writing and reading are not fasilitated.
With so mutsh progres already made, it might be posible in 1950 to delve further into the posibilities of fonetik speling. After due konsidera- tion of the reseption aforded the previous steps, it should be expedient by this time to spel al difthongs fonetikaly. Most students do not realize that the long "i" and "y," as in "time" and "by," are aktualy the difthong "ai," as it is writen in "aisle" and that the long "a" in "fate," is in reality the difthong "ei" as in "rein." Although perhaps not imediately aparent, the saving in taime and efort wil be tremendous when we leiter elimineite the sailent "e," as meide posible bai this last tsheinge.
For, as is wel known, the horible mes of "e's' apearing in our writen language is kaused prinsipaly bai the present nesesity of indikeiting whether a vowel is long or short. Therefore, in 1951 we kould simply elimineit al sailent "e's," and kontinu to read and wrait merily along as though we wer in an atomik ag of edukation.
In 1951 we would urg a greit step forward. Sins bai this taim it would have ben four years sins anywun had usd the leter "c," we would sugest that the "National Easy Languag Wek" for 1951 be devoted to substitution of "c" for "Th." To be sur it would be som taim befor peopl would bekom akustomd to reading ceir newspapers and buks wic sutsh sentenses in cem as "Ceodor caught he had cre cousand cistls crust crough ce cik of his cumb.''
In ce seim maner, bai meiking eatsh leter hav its own sound and cat sound only, we kould shorten ce language stil mor. In 1952 we would elimineit ce "y"; cen in 1953 we kould us ce leter to indikeit ce "sh" sound, cerbai klarifaiing words laik yugar and yur, as wel as redusing bai wun mor leter al words laik "yut," "yore" and so forc. Cink, cen, of al ce benefits to be geind bai ce distinktion whitsh wil cen be meid between words laik:
ocean now writen oyean
machine now writen mayin
racial now writen reiyial
Al sutsh divers weis of wraiting wun sound would no longer exist. and whenever wun kaim akros a "y" sound he would know exaktli what to wrait.
Kontinuing cis proses, year after year, we would eventuali hav a reali sensibl writen langug. By 1975, wi ventyur tu sei, cer wud bi no mor uv ces teribli trublsum difikultis, wic no tu leters usd to indikeit ce seim nois, and laikwais no tu noises riten wic ce seim leter. Even Mr. Yaw, wi beliv, wud be hapi in ce noleg cat his drims fainili keim tru.
My phone line is dead, so my Internet is also hosed.
Bryan has returned from China with our Samsung tablet, so I’m able to connect again.
Sorry to have been AWOL there for a couple of days.
And yes, Ma’am. I didn’t see nothing...
The phone company, when you can talk to them, will suggest to you that you take a standard desk phone out to your telephone interface panel, (the place where the phone line comes into your house), and plug it in there directly.
If you still have no dial tone, then the problem is in the line coming to your house, but you probably knew that already.
I read that once. It still makes me laugh...thanks!
And Bierce’s “Devil’s Dictionary” you linked for me the other day is pretty funny, too.
Fill in the stock lecture on how soil is not “dirt” until it comes indoors.
We got a new router. I’m told our interwebs are better now.
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