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From: "James Silverton" <not.jim.silverton@erols.com>
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Subject: Re: Who is that celebrity in the new McDonalds commercial?
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 10:24:11 -0400
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Chris wrote on Mon, 17 Jan 2005 18:16:03 +0000:
??>>>> English is not consistent...
??>>> Right you are.
??>>> Language was spoken before it was written down by
??>>> "historians". The rules came later to help us learn the
??>>> language.
??>>
??>> Algo que no se debe olvidar. Por ello en castellano las
??>> letras v y b corresponden al mismo sonido. No como en
??>> inmigrante en EE.UU. ignora esto por lo general y trata de
CC> That's easy for you to say!
Forgive me if my records do not go back far enough and it has
already been mentioned but it just occurred to me that "Who is
that celebrity?" is rather a contradiction in terms? I would
have thought the essence of celebrity is not to have to ask the
question :-)
James Silverton.
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