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To: PapaNew; Tax-chick
Americans have a nasty way of doing things their own way that often actually makes sense.

We declared and won our independence, and that spirit when reinforced by our isolating oceans, enabling constitution, and entrepreneurial economy guaranteed such sensible innovations.

"[O]ften actually makes sense," yes, but often no. For example, our language's use of the adjective preceding the noun it modifies is silly: blue pen versus pen blue, as in Spanish ("pluma azul"), for example. The main fact is the object, while its color is secondary: "oceans isolating, constitution enabling, economy entrepreneurial, innovations sensible."

10 posted on 03/23/2015 9:36:05 AM PDT by Hebrews 11:6 (Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
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To: Hebrews 11:6

They don’t call our language “American.” They call it “English.” Illogical sentence structure is not our fault.


11 posted on 03/23/2015 9:45:17 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
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