miguel <mjc101@gmail.com> Thou quailing fellow. Thou hell-hated little
better thing than earth. Thou waxy-eared vengeance proud. Thou
ill-breeding horn-mad. Ye mourned and ye ruptured:

> Kadaitcha Man, he-***** wrote:
>> Rhonda Lea Kirk <rhondalea@gmail.com>:
>>> "Kadaitcha Man" he-*****
>>>> Rhonda Lea Kirk:
>>>>> "Kadaitcha Man" he-*****
>>>>>> Rhonda Lea Kirk:
>>>>>>> "Kadaitcha Man" he-*****
>>>>>>>> miguel:
>
>>>>>>>>> You stupid circus freak. First (not "firstly," that's a sign
>>>>>>>>> of questionable literacy<*****SLAP>
>>>>>>>> Is that so, cranston?
>
>>>>>>>> andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/f.html
>>>>>>>> http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/gramm...ronouns01.html
>>>>>>>> http://www.informatics.susx.ac.uk/re.../multiple.html
>>>>>>>> faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/westbury/Paradigm/hullen.html
>>>>>>>> esl.about.com/od/englishlistening/a/listen_tips.htm
>>>>>>>> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/registry/events...ation/hc-2005/
>>>>>>>> http://www.akademio-de-esperanto.org...iko_angla.html
>>>>>>>> http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/gramm...e/firstly.html
>>>>>>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/le...00008600.shtml
>>>>>>>> www.literacytrust.org.uk/Database/grammar.html
>>>>>>>> www.cl.ut.ee/ee/yllitised/first/lummeerilt.html
>>>>>>>> http://www.english-online.org.uk/eng...g/profblog.php
>>>>>>>> www.gsu.edu/~wwwesl/egw/leaphrt1.htm
>
>>>>>>>> There are approximately 670,000 other pages, many from other
>>>>>>>> reputable organisations as those above, that say you're a
>>>>>>>> ****wit, cranston. Firstly, you are a ****wit. Secondly, you
>>>>>>>> always were a ****wit.
>>>>>>>> Thirdly, you will always be a ****wit, you ****wit.
>>>>>>> http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/inde...?date=20010629
>
>>>>>>> [...]
>
>>>>>>> "Most usage authorities during the last half century, from
>>>>>>> Wilson Follett and Jacques Barzun (Modern American Usage, 1966)
>>>>>>> to The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage (1999), have
>>>>>>> pretty much agreed with your professor and recommended "No
>>>>>>> -ly," on the grounds that the extra syllable is...well...extra.
>>>>>>> A current, highly regarded usage book that remains neutral,
>>>>>>> acknowledging (with many citations) the historicity of both
>>>>>>> varieties, is Merriam Webster's Dictionary of English Usage."
>>>>>>> [...]
>
>>>>>>> "Ultimately, the choice is one of style:
>
>>>>>> Well, clearly crasston lacks that.
>
>>>>>>> Since first is a perfectly
>>>>>>> good adverb just as it stands, there is no need for the -ly. As
>>>>>>> E.B. White put it in the chapter he contributed to Strunk and
>>>>>>> White's The Elements of Style (1959): "Do not dress words up by
>>>>>>> adding 'ly' to them, as though putting a hat on a horse."
>>>>>> 1959, huh? That would be a 1959 revision of the 1918 original,
>>>>>> yes?
>>>>> You apparently missed the paragraph above re Modern American Usage
>>>>> (1966) and the New York Times Manual of Style and Usage (1999).
>>>> No, I didn't miss it. I ignored it. I was hoping to avoid having to
>>>> point out that the reference is to Modern American Usage (1966). It
>>>> no doubt has to be called American and not English due to horrific
>>>> butchering of the original language into an almost unrecognisable
>>>> carcass stiffened rigid by nearly a hundred years of rigor mortis.
>>> Nonetheless, you are the only non-American-dialect speaker in this
>>> particular subthread.
>
>> Ah, you want to play your worn-out "this paricular subthread..."
>> card. Nice foot-shuffle. Pity it only works on shutting up ****wits.
>
> Evidently it does not have the desired effect on the truly
> ego-blistered ****wits. That's a shame.

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