Xref: utzoo news.groups:15492 alt.kids-talk:54 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!fluke!ddsw1!benfeen From: benfeen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen) Newsgroups: news.groups,alt.kids-talk Subject: Re: You're Not A Kid! Message-ID: <1989Dec9.054230.20193@ddsw1.MCS.COM> Date: 9 Dec 89 05:42:30 GMT References: <1989Nov17.032939.11435@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <1222@mondo.omni.com> <1989Nov26.043958.771@ddsw1.MCS.COM> <6352@hacgate.UUCP> <4389@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <4408@helios.ee.lbl.gov> Reply-To: benfeen@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Ben Feen) Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM Contributor, Mundelein, IL Lines: 19 In article <4408@helios.ee.lbl.gov> antony@lbl-csam.arpa (Antony A. Courtney) writes: >In article sandro@itsgw.rpi.edu (Sandro Wallach) writes: >> >>Who is this Antony guy, anyway? >> >>He sure doesn't sound like a kid to me. Listen to the way he talks! >Geez, grownups! They bitch and whine if you use big words, and they bitch >and whine if your vocabulary is simple-minded! Me kid. Me got ten and four years. Me use thing what call place. Place is school. Me like call school. Me use thing at school what me call with me thing what I call thing at school with. Obviously, the use of monosyllables in writing such as this, i.e. in the company of Harvard students, is not what one would deem appropriate. Antony and I are almost the same age, and we often write more eloquently than those who refer to themselves as English Lit. majors. So sue us! P.S. Either you're precocious, or you're "special". I prefer being precocious, eh? -- |Opus and Frodo live! | "Sometimes, when your cat just died and you've cut off your favorite appendage(s) with a power saw and there's epoxy in the Visine and you brush your teeth with Clearasil it helps to say 'What the f*ck'" | This signature consists of non-blanks separated by blanks.