Yahoo Tuning Groups Ultimate Backup metatuning Re: speaking of which (common knowledge)

--- In metatuning@y..., "X. J. Scott" <xjscott@e...> wrote:
> That reminds me.
>
> -> Anyone else agree that 'it's' should be possesive neuter pronoun and some
> OTHER word should be a contraction of it is, like itz? English professors
> and dictionaries are clearly wrong here.

This doesn't bother me too much, as the context usually makes its' meaning clear.

> -> Base 10 -- is it for retards or what? Simply has to be the stupidest base
> to use. Who ever divides a pizza into 2 5 or 10 slices? Base 10 is supremely
> idiotic when useful and correct base 12 is so close. And don't get me
> started about the dumb-ass metric system. Like I really want to divide by 10
> when doing cabinetry. Taking a half, third, fourth, sixth are all WAY more
> likely than a FIFTH. Total breakdown of common sense when *THEY* decided to
> go with retarded brain-dead base-10.

I like base pi myself.

> -> What is the deal with the plural of you in the english language? At least
> here in Appalachia we have the sense to distinguish 'you'ns' from 'you'. ANd
> the eastern seaboard apparently has 'yousn's' the deep south 'y'all' and the
> west coast 'you guys'. Let's stick these in the dictionary as correct usage
> and stop pretending we don't need to distinguish second person singular from
> plural.

Round my neighborhood the term is "yous" or, for the more edycated "youse". Pronounce it like Dubya would, with a hard ess. "Yous better shut up about my sister"

> -> He or she? When we mean both, let's use 'he' which has meant 'he and/or
> she' for hundreds of years and when we mean 'man or woman' let's use 'man'
> which has meant 'man and/or woman' for hundreds of years. The alternatives
> are too clumsy and are an absurd fad created to pander to the
> oversensitivity of the terminally politically correct. Screw em I say and
> let's get things back to normal and speak like regular people instead of
> like robots and lawyers.

How about appropriating the old Cockney 'e for our gender neutral pronoun, and reserving he/she for crossdressers, or folks halfway through a sex change operation? Wait, we may need both he/she and she/he depending on which direction the change is going, ...., or am I being directionist?

There is an interesting bunch of alternatives here:
http://www.aetherlumina.com/gnp/intro.html#conventions

You know, we as free USAsians are in a prosition to coin all the new linguage we like. Who in the world can tell us how to speak and spell? Who? Youse gotta prollem widat?

> - Jeff, farmer

- John, contrarian

Re: speaking of which (common knowledge)

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