Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rtech.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!decwrl!nsc!amdahl!rtech!jeff From: jeff@rtech.UUCP (Jeff Lichtman) Newsgroups: net.misc Subject: Re: Is English decaying rapidly? Message-ID: <718@rtech.UUCP> Date: Sat, 26-Oct-85 04:13:52 EST Article-I.D.: rtech.718 Posted: Sat Oct 26 04:13:52 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 28-Oct-85 03:48:43 EST References: <1427@cae780.UUCP> <10600196@uiucdcs> <1937@bmcg.UUCP> <223@entropy.UUCP> Organization: Relational Technology, Alameda CA Lines: 14 > I would like to nominate the following type of sentence as being > worthy of hate. "Allare not alike." What is really > meant is, "Not all are alike." There are more and > more of these appearing in print and being spoken in tv ads. > I cringe every time I hear one. No, what is meant is, " are not all alike." Whenever I hear someone say, "Not all are alike," I reply, "No, only one of them is alike." -- Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.) "Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent..." {amdahl, sun}!rtech!jeff {ucbvax, decvax}!mtxinu!rtech!jeff