Still off topic. Deal with it. [was Re: Got a Doubt ! Wanting for your Help ! Plz make it ASAP !]
Jussi Piitulainen
jpiitula at ling.helsinki.fi
Wed Nov 27 04:47:11 EST 2013
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 20:24:16 -0800, Rick Johnson wrote:
>
> > Although i would strongly prefer for him to choose ubiquitous
> > definitions *over* regional definitions when posting to internet
> > forums, i would have happily ignored this thread had it not been
> > for Stevens emotional plea of:
> >
> > "As this is an international forum, it behoves [sic] us all to
> > make allowances for slight difference in dialect."
>
> Please don't mislabel my correctly spelt words with "sic" just
> because your regional variation of the Queens English uses a
> different spelling.
Don't you know POTUS's Kenyan? [/joke]
(Well done about "behove". I knew the word is FORMAL[*] but I had no
idea that the variant spelling I knew was a regionalism. "Queen's",
though. :)
[*] Not shouting. Imitating the small caps that COBUILD uses for such
labels.
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