[Info-vax] Raxco VMS Tuning Seminar Notes

[Richard B. Gilbert]

On 11/8/2010 7:10 AM, AEF wrote:
> On Oct 21, 9:48 am, JF Mezei<jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca>  wrote:
>> Hein RMS van den Heuvel wrote:
>>
>>> That's twice in a week that I have welcomed and agreed with a post by
>>> JF !
>
> Scary . . . isn't it?
>
>>
>> As we approach the end of the world in december 2012, these unlikely
>> events may happen more often as the clash between the 2 universes (yours
>> and mine) becomes more and more imminent.
>>
>> But each time someone in the real universe agrees with me, it causes
>> disruptiosn in the space time continuum and those will make the disaster
>> of 2012 of even greater biblical proportions.
>
> No, no, no. The world will end in 2012 for other reasons: People
> saying "I should have did it," for example. There seems to be no hope
> of this going away. "I will lay down" instead of "I will lie down." "I
> was laying in bed," etc. When will we know for sure? When people start
> saying "He's went" instead of "He's gone." Then it will be imminent.
>
> Then there's aspect-ratio disease. People set their modern flat-panel
> TV's to show the wrong aspect ratio, just so it fills the screen!
> Perhaps this is thought of as being modern, hip, cool. Even worse,
> sometimes the SAME website will have different videos of varying
> aspect ratios, all of them incorrect!
>
> Of course there's also apostrophe disease, but I have to admit even I
> have suffered from that from time to time. Admittedly, this has been
> with us for a very long time. Still, it doesn't help matters any. Once
> seen, hand-painted on a store-front window: "We have Fisher
> Stereo's".
>

It's much worse than that.  I once heard a grown man say "Her and Bruce 
went to a movie."  I suspect that very soon we will have to teach 
remedial English to people who believe they speak the language.

Hey JF!  Would a Parisian be able to understand a Quebecois?  (I hope I 
spelled that right!)