[Coco] Coco3 GIF viewer demonstrated

Gene Heskett gheskett at shentel.net
Mon Mar 5 17:09:33 EST 2018


On Monday 05 March 2018 13:38:10 Deny Wilson 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.

I remember those, but its been nearly 70 years since I set foot in a 
classroom except as the teacher. They were, in the earlier years, even 
teaching phonics, the most educational subject there was. And it was 
discontinued the year after I took it. Quitting teaching that was the 
biggest mistake the school systems ever perpetrated on our children.

> Today, though, we just accept the incorrect as 
> correct and move on.

And now we're handing out diploma's to kids that can't count out the 
change at McDonald's.

> And get off my lawn! 

Unless it needs mowing and you are mowing it...

> 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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