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From: philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk (Phil Hunt)
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Subject: Re: PBS is at it again---so are the Linguists
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In article <3ilqrv$sfs@newsbf02.news.aol.com> perotean@aol.com "Perotean" writes:
> The situation is rapidly coming to
> the situtation in which "situation" will be the
> ONLY noun left, and all other nouns and
> modifiers will modify "situation"!

Ah, so we have an ongoing language deterioration situation, then?

> In a parallel vein, a few years back there
> appeared in the once prestigeous and
> dilligently careful _Scientific American_ an
> article whose first paragraph included a
> sentence to the effect:
> 
> "The Indo-European language is based on an
> alphabet. . . ."
> 
> As if any system of writing antedates any
> language!!!

The Roman alphabet predates the English language.

-- 
Phil Hunt...philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk
Majority rule for Britain!
