[Coco] Coco3 GIF viewer demonstrated

Kevin Becker kevin at kevinbecker.org
Mon Mar 5 15:35:41 EST 2018


'tis a shame yond the language wast static and unchanged for hundreds of
years until the "children of the present day" did do cometh 'long and
ruined 't.





On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 1:38 PM, Deny Wilson <deny.wilson at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's why ain't and irregardless is now a word. I remember back when we had
> these things called schools, and they'd teach you proper speech, spelling
> and grammar. Today, though, we just accept the incorrect as correct and
> move on. And get off my lawn!
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 12:26 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> > > On Mar 5, 2018, at 12:20 PM, Salvador Garcia via Coco <
> > coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I caught a friend in a lie the other day. He told that
> > something-or-other (don't remember what) had literally cost him an arm
> and
> > a leg, but I counted his limbs and they were all intact ;-) Salvador
> >
> > Words used to have meanings. At least they consider this usage
> “informal”:
> >
> > lit·er·al·ly
> > [ˈlidərəlē, ˈlitrəlē]
> > ADVERB
> > in a literal manner or sense; exactly:
> > "the driver took it literally when asked to go straight across the
> traffic
> > circle" · [more]
> > informal
> > used for emphasis or to express strong feeling while not being literally
> > true:
> > "I have received literally thousands of letters"
> >
> >
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