Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 07:25:21 +0200 From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: FreeBSD chat list <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: danny@panda.hilink.com.au, jak@cetlink.net, peter@netplex.com.au, des@FreeBSD.ORG, "Alok K. Dhir" <adhir@worldbank.org> Subject: Re: Correct English style Message-ID: <19980421072521.43822@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980418094758.8086B-100000@shadow.worldbank.org>; from Alok K. Dhir on Sat, Apr 18, 1998 at 09:48:30AM -0400 References: <A83094452E611E4C852565EA002A9FAE.002987B3852565EA@worldbank.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980418094758.8086B-100000@shadow.worldbank.org>
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(Moved to -chat) As Alok K. Dhir wrote: > On Sat, 18 Apr 1998 danny@panda.hilink.com.au wrote: > > > When someone who learnt English as a second language corrects English > ^^^^^^ > > That's "learned". :-) Nope, at least by the time when i went to school, both the regular and the irregular past tense form of `learn' have been valid. IIRC, with a tendency to consider the regular form being `more modern'. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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