Most people I know that are fluent in English or have English as their native language do not understand the structure and development of the language. Many people who say there are no rules, say so because they don't know the rules. ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Chops Westfield" To: Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 5:48 PM Subject: Re: [OT:] Difference between Its and It's > On Saturday, Dec 13, 2003, at 12:17 US/Pacific, Herbert Graf wrote: > > > There are just some things in English that make NO sense at all > > A lot of that is because english shameless steals interesting words > from any other language where they happen to occur. Whether or not > they obey the rules from the original language. So after you've > imported both rule-following and exceptional words from a dozen > languages, and applied some fraction of english rules to the results, > it's not surprising that the result is a mess. > > BillW > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: > [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads