> On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:57:23PM +0100, Kenn Humborg wrote:
>> > Nope. More like "this guy doesn't punctuate his emails", and "that
> > guy doesn't capatilise his emails" and "that other guy doesn't
> > grammaticate his emails".
>> What about "that guy doen't run a spell checker which would surely have
> rejected capatilise" on his emails ?
Touche'. Won't mention the "doen't" then...
> BTW the verb is boviously grammatize as in "The Great Automatic
^^^^^^^^^
Intertwingles nicely with the mince meat sub thread
> Grammatizator" which, for the illiterate among you, is a short story by
> the famous Norwegian WWII fighter pilot, Roald Dahl.
But wouldn't that mean the verb would be "grammatizate"? As
in "gyrator" and "gyrate" and "irritator" and "irritate"?
(Yes, I _know_ it's really "irritant", but this will
rub a few people up nicely :-)
Later,
Kenn
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