On Tuesday 29 August 2006 09:20, Timothy Murphy wrote: >Erik P. Olsen wrote: >> Hm, tried the English (Denmark) version and there is absolutely no >> Danish in that and it merely looks like another American English >> variant. > >I looked at English (Irish) some time ago, >and couldn't find any difference from English (UK). > >The two differences that are sometimes quoted are >"rere" (for the back of a building) >and "seperate" for "separate". >I've always assumed that the latter stems from some Dan Quayle-like > teacher refusing to admit he (or more likely she) was wrong. > >But English (Irish) did not actually have either of these. > >A lot of these English variants strike me as rather mythical. >I guess if you can't think of a topic for a thesis >and live on the moon it is quite handy. > >(Reminds me - I was taught 60 years ago >never to write "lot", "got" or "nice", >but that is a hard diet to follow.) I don't recall that being proscribed by my teachers, but OTOH, it wasn't encouraged either when I was in grammer school in the 40's, which BTW is as far as I got in formal schooling, I was too busy fixing these new-fangled things called tv's. I've made a comfortable living lassoing electrons and makeing them do usefull or entertaining work since. :-) But I use 'nice' where its appropriate without any guilt, its a complement IMO. >-- >Timothy Murphy >e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie >tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 >s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2006 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
