Westover wrote:
Not too ruin your fun but has it ever occurred to anyone that not everyone on here has English as their first language??? Who gives a Rats Pajama's what the spelling & grammar is like.. really ...
Just because Canada has three languages, French, English, and Canadian, doesn't necessarily mean that we in the U. S. can't expect literacy regarding our one national language. You've seen how confused I get if something is misspelled. Lord help me on this thread if I hadn't had my dictionary because I might have thought that Chantal was sick with misothelioma when she just really hated women. What do you call a woman who hates Mike Smith? Intelligent?
What's a rat's pajama? Do you have pajama's made of rhodent wool? Are they warm? They don't smell do they? I'm trying to think of something imaginative to give my wife this Xmas. Can you recommend a catalog? We've got plenty of barn cats around here, so there is no way I'd find a rat to weave my own. I've got to find something. My wife is tiring of Xmas clothes made of squirrel pelts.
I lived for a short time on the Canadian border in VT. I remember when the Canadian $ was worth half the U. S. $ and French Canadians were trying to secede. I think I saw my first blaze orange painted house near Quebec City. I've got a feeling all the U. S. hunters of that era saw that house too because that was about the same time blaze orange became the fashion fad for every gun toting tobacco chewing redneck hunter south of the northern border. Colorful place, Quebec.
Some years ago, my wife and I vacationed in Montreal. We didn't have any trouble with the dinner menus printed in French or English, but the one written in Canadian was hell to understand. Had to get help and then we realized the waiter was French and he couldn't speak either English or Canadian. His name tag read Charles DeGaulle.
Don't be so tough on those of us who wish preserve our national language as it was donated to us by the British. The U. S. is going through a tough period. Half the kids are cheating on the standardized tests so they can get into college. Fifty percent of those applying for the military can't pass the test and of the 50% that can pass the test, 75% can't meet the physical requirements. No wonder our imperialistic policies are a losing proposition and thank the lord for fast food restaurants. No one would be employed in the U. S. without them.
