World's worst software. What's decent?

It is a personal observation that comes from reading a whole lot of his personal letters, and other writings. I was very surprised to see that he was quite consistant, and quite modern. The letters he received in reply were all over the place with their spelling.

-Chuck

"Strunk and White" in the standard "Style" manual used for a variety of formal writing. You could just look it up. IF you have access to the Internet. Don't you have a "Style" manual in Britain?

Gee. No wonder your confused! (:>)

There is NO record! My family has been in America for over 400 years. I've lived in several states. Never had a problem communicating with anyone. Wisconsin, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, Hawaii, and California. I may have missed the states where I only had a contract job there. Some of these states are larger than Britain. None as crowded.

By the way, what are you on? Your goofy mannerisms are quite annoying. (:>)

Do you really mean to try to be insulting? (You fall short if you do.)

Quoting Pooh Bear [ snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com], that posted to sci.electronics.cad on Fri, 22 Oct 2004 01:13:03 +0100 under article :

I use Word 97. It's the last Word version that is worth it.

differences.

someone on

The Indians speak English with a largely unmistakeable accent. It can be *very* 'broad' to the extent that I've had trouble following some Indian speakers clearly.

On the other hand, a few Indians speak English with a virtually neutral accent.

Graham

Oh. You mean you don't have a birth certificate?

Here we go again. Those pretentious F*&*ing Americans that that seem to think that they are not American because that have some extremely remote connection outwith the US. ROTFLMAO.

Look, dude, read my lips. You are American. Period. However, I agree, there is good reason for Americans to try and deny that they are, as evidenced by the fact that they usually all respond in a like manner when asked this question.

Kevin Aylward snipped-for-privacy@anasoft.co.uk

Ahmmm... Plymouth is a *port* where people *went* to board ships. Its not very likely that many on the Mayflower actually *came* from Plymouth or that area, so it makes no sense at all that they would have west English accents.

The first link I got on this was

Where it is stated that that many on the Mayflower were transfers from a Southampton ship, and that some weren't even English.

Kevin Aylward snipped-for-privacy@anasoft.co.uk

Some of them were certainly Dutch, according to Jonathon Israel's "The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall 1477-1806".ISBN:

-------- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

That ... that (repeated word). "They" instead of "that"? Outwith doesn't work here (USA) either. Work on your English before you bash us.

You can kill his posts, but I enjoy them. His off-the-wall stuff is entertaining and occasionally educational. Also, he has responded to several of my posts and helped me out. To each his own. I like his website too.

Had nothing of value to add to the topic.

Just Kill file the jerk!

Hey, if he is entertaining, go for it. Nothing much on TV anyway.

Interesting to see a guy who runs his own company using a term like "F*&*ing Americans". Don't you sell your products to Americans Kevin..?

Prescott

What language is this supposed to be?

I spent a year living there - loved it BTW - and I used to try to emulate the accent of the "Memphians" and came up with a couple of rules.

I never got very good at it, but here is on example I annotated. There is a great brew pub near Overton Sqaure in Midtown called "Bosco's Squared". One of their signature beers is "Flaming Stone" ale. I got very close to being able to say this in a mid south accent as follows:

"Fillay May-ing Stay-own"

Not perfect, but I preferred the IPA anyways ;)

Bob

the feeling is mutual.

Not any more!

Why, Thank you!

Any American reading my comments, usually takes it that it is those

Kevin Aylward snipped-for-privacy@anasoft.co.uk

Other than the American Indians who came across the Baring Straights a few thousand years ago just about everyone else arrived from somewhere else in the last few hundred years - mostly from Europe. So why are these Americans "daft"?

Prescott