Actually, I recommend "Wheelock's Lapin" because it the text of choice for those intending to learn (or brush up on) Laptin. Geddit?

I heard it got banned outside Equilaxitavia because of a detrimental Lapinist effect it had on some sensitive readers? And the long-winded appendices on ginger-beer brewing techniques in ancient Equilaxitavia bored generations of pupils...

Hey, the Appendices are not required reading! They are completely optional, although they are recommended due to the insight that they provide into Esquilaxitavian culture.

I'm arbitrarily stepping back into this thread to correct Esq's English.

"They are completely optional, although they are recommended due to the insight that they provide into Esquilaxitavian culture."

"due to" should be "owing to".


I'm now going to leave this thread again.

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well said, TET!

Yeah, that seems to have silenced him.

Either that, or I have more important things to do *shakes head*. In any case, this is last time that I am going to bother to defend my English to the likes of *you* TET. That is, until such time as you can clearly and unequivocally prove that you possess the status necessary to make such corrections. Some tertiary qualifications from a recognised University would be useful (), especially as you done speak that there British English, while I speaka da Orstraylian English. *Shakes head* The temerity of yous guys never ceases to amaze me. Anyway, back to the English...

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due /du, dyu/ Pronunciation Key - [doo, dyoo –adjective
1. owed at present

due to,
a. attributable to; ascribable to

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Considering the above definition, my previous statement is both gramatically and semantically correct.

Edited by - esquilax on 12/27/2006 12:14:48 AM

strange, that Eskwilurx' attempt at a mock Australian "Ocker" accent should read more like a stereotypical Noo Dworkian hoodlum? (or possibly even Spook from Top Cat)

when what he really wanted to say was..

"Strewth cobber thats some fair dinkum, crikey, tie me kangaroo down sport..."

It didna sound like an Australian accent 'cause 'twas not my intention to imitate one. Why? Because they are so banal, cobber.

The preference of "owing to" over "due to" is generational and, er, a matter of old worldishness.

In general terms, it was felt that "owing to" conveyed meaning more immediately. Typographically, in terms of newsprint, it is rather obvious why "due to" gained modern linear inch preference.

Sorry for the quote from the first page...

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I am particularly amused, in a despairing sort of way, by the warnings on those MacBurger Kong cups - "caution - contains hot liquid" - I should sincerely hope that they do!

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You go to MacDonalds and Burger King?

Shame on you!

sadly my offspring generally insist on it. I despair.

From a parental point of view, one of the drawbacks to Noo Dworkia is that there is a commercial fast food establishment of some kind within walking distance from home in any direction, there are donut and ice cream purveyors likewise proximate to the abode and all manner of more traditional food shops as well.

Interesting that they're called the Big M in Tawakalnistan. We know them as "Golden Arches" although my friends and I called them bent fries.

actually they're known as MeccaDonalds or McMuslims.