Re: Career questions: databases
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 02:36:48 GMT
Message-ID: <4Diii.1411$Np2.1373_at_trnddc07>
"> One, we're not living in Shakespeare's day anymore, so get over it.
I never wrote any such thing. I mentioned it to point out that it's not a
new development in the usage of the word, so it shouldn't surprise you that
someone is using it.
> And two, Brits don't know nothing. If they did, then they wouldn't have
Empires don't last forever. Just ask the Romans. And how many empires,
pray tell, have you built, compared to the British, and how many continents
did they span, and for how many hundreds of years?
> and wouldn't have needed us to bail them out in WWII.
Who's "us"? You carried an M-1 Garand in World War II, right beside my Dad,
huh? And by the way, Gunny is short for Gunnery Sergeant, United States
Marine Corps, so I'll let you guess my citizenship.
> So, since, if it weren't for us, you'd be speaking German anyway,
There you go with that "us" again. I _do_ speak German, and I doubt you
ever lifted a finger to keep anyone from teaching me or anyone else, for
that matter. And when our founding fathers were deciding the official
language of the new United States of America, German lost by only one vote,
so it's not the big deal you may think it is.
> I suggest you learn proper American English,
I have a better command of American English than most people do because I
went to school to get an education and the diplomas, instead of just the
diplomas. That may also be because I was lucky enough to be born a stone's
throw from San Francisco, where everyone spoke American English, and the
majority of them had a college education. I had plenty of good examples to
learn from.
HTH.
See http://www.QBuilt.com for all your database needs.
> lost their world empire,
Gunny