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By golly, Janet, did you know you sound just like Andy Rooney with all them "Did you knows?" <grin> Do you ever wonder how that happened? _ I _ wonder how that happened. And Andy Rooney's wife wonders how that happened, too. <wee smirk> Say..you don't look like ol Andy, do ya? <ducking> Barb Mallut [log in to unmask] ---------- From: Parkinson's Information Exchange on behalf of Janet Paterson Sent: Thursday, July 02, 1998 11:44 AM To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN Subject: Re: letters / words / languages hi jeanette you wrote in part: >...sending in articles/stories that might be published >and get some visibility and support for PD >and research for it's cause/cure? >Are you hearing this janet paterson? yass, ma'am, ah shorely am! [translates to: yes, indeed!] i am working on it! i am working on it! by the way did you know that repetition for emphasis like the above is a linguistic style common to west african/west indian heritage? did you know that the 'sk' sound as in the english word 'ask' is rare in west african languages and thus can result in pronunciation like 'axe' instead? did you know that virtually every italian word ends in a vowel and thus can result ina englisha beinga spokena likea thisa? did you know that the 'th' sound is rare in the french language and thus can result in 'tanks for dat' pronunciation of 'thanks for that'? and also, in computer-ish did you know that ibm pc-ish and macintosh-ish and unix-ish are unintelligible to each other? did you know that ascii-ish [=e-mail] and html-ish [=world wide web] are intelligible both to each other and to the others? did you know that all of the above only re-affirms my delight in communicating with you in this way? love janet [log in to unmask]