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Re: [L-OT] Re: Grammar...

2003-09-06 by Oblivian | Bacteria AS

Eric Baird <eric_baird@...> wrote:
> And I think that the use of certain "taught" rules is just stupid.
> The only thing that I can think of right now that bugs me about US
> grammar is when you get some Dumb American Grammar Nazi who insists
> on saying "an Hotel" with a strongly pronounced H, and corrects
> others who don't. It only seems to be well-educated Americans who do
> that.

If you want to meet some real nasty language/grammar Nazi's, visit this
board:
http://www.poem.org/poetry/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=poetrygeneral

And if you really want to get yourself into trouble, ask if anyone happens
to have a good song lyric lying about...

Ouch!

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