Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site petfe.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!petsd!petfe!evan From: evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: English decaying Message-ID: <554@petfe.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 12:16:31 EST Article-I.D.: petfe.554 Posted: Mon Nov 11 12:16:31 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 04:40:55 EST References: <1427@cae780.UUCP>, <2472@sunybcs.UUCP> Organization: Perkin-Elmer DSG, Tinton Falls, N.J. Lines: 24 Keywords: Say what you mean! In <2472@sunybcs.UUCP>, Col. G.L. Sicherman writes: >> Am I getting more sensitive, or is the English language, as used, >> becoming less logical? > >> On all airlines now, for example, the landing message is always "We >> would like to welcome you to ...". Well then, why don't they DO it? >> Isn't "We would like to welcome you to New York" different from >> "Welcome to New York"? Don't you expect the first to continue with >> "but, unfortunately, we landed in..."? > >The prelude gives your ears time to get used to the sound of the speaker. OK, then how about when a nightclub singer (read Lounge Lizard) says "I'd like to do a song, and it goes something like this..." Doesn't it go EXACTLY like this...? Just once I'd like to see one say "...something like this," then sing a song, then say "but it goes EXACTLY like this..." and sing an entirely different song! --Evan Marcus -- {ucbvax|decvax}!vax135!petsd!petfe!evan ...!pedsgd!pedsga!evan Who messed with my anti-paranoia shot?