> > Common usage always throws a wrench into the cogs :) But
"official"
stuff
> > sticks around forever...
>
> Not so.  After all, English no longer has case and is now totally
> order-dependent (and, in fact, ambiguous still for all that).

STOP IT!!! You're ruining my blanket generalized statement with facts!


>
> > Oh yeah... English is the great language thief :)
>
> To be fair, I blame the Normans, you know, beating up the English and
> inflicting 10,000 new words.  Darned conquest.

The Normans started it, but we've been happily following ever after 
ooooo look at the purty word....

>
> >>>you're mean 
> >>
> >>I don't think I've ever discouraged that assessment of my character.
> >
> > yeah, you and Fang... terrors both
> > 
> > here kitty kitty....
>
> Must....resist.....
>
Hard...to...look....fearsome....when....getting....scratched....behind...ear
....
> Am...talking....like...Kirk.... ;)

yup, I was right... total whore for ear scritches, tummy rubs and
thatlittlepieceofbiscuityou'renoteatingthatareyoucanIhaveit?





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