Fw: Is this a good idea or a waste of time?

[Hendrik van Rooyen]

 "Simon Forman" <rogue_pedro at yahoo.com> Wrote:


| Hendrik van Rooyen wrote:
| > "Simon Forman" <rogue_pedro at yahoo.com> wrote:
| >
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| >
| >  | BTW, speaking of "strictness",  "more stricter" is invalid English,
| > | just "stricter" is the "correct" form.  ;-)
| >
| >  or alternatively the construct "more strict" is also acceptable - Hendrik
|
| It is, but technically it's not. English is more bizarrer that that..

LOL!

| It depends or the number of syllables in the word: one or two, add
| '-er'; three or more (or if the two-syllable-er word "sounds lame"),
| use "more"...
|
| English, the perl of natural languages.. lol   (Apparently Dutch is
| pretty weird too..)
|
| Peace,
| ~Simon

*grin* my Dutch is Dangerous - its actually Afrikaans - a highly simplified
variant that is poison to good Dutch...

I like the rule about the syllables - would never remember it in the heat of
battle though...

- Hendrik