[WikiEN-l] Use of English

Sun Apr 2 09:05:39 UTC 2006

Besides, it's supposed to be simple. Unless you can think of something
simpler?

--NSLE

On 4/2/06, MacGyverMagic/Mgm <macgyvermagic at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/2/06, Gordon Joly <gordon.joly at pobox.com> wrote:
> > At 09:27 +0100 2/4/06, Gordon Joly wrote:
> > >I have just "discovered" the "Simple English Wikipedia"
> > >
> > >http://simple.wikipedia.org/
> > >
> > >
> > >On the left, under "Navigation", I find
> > >
> > >>>   Newest changes
> > >
> > >I am very surprised to find this phrase here, since it is very poor
> English!
> > >
> > >Gordo
> > >
> > >--
> >
> >
> > In fact, all menus have been "munged" (**) into dialect of English!
> >
> >
> > # My talk
> > # My settings
> > # My watched pages
> > # Pages I worked on
> > # Log out
> >
> > # Show any page (which is really "Random Page")
> >
> > Gordo
> >
> >
> > **
> >
> > http://foldoc.org/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=munge
> >
> > --
> > "Think Feynman"/////////
> > http://pobox.com/~gordo/
> > gordon.joly at pobox.com///
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> New, Newer newest. What's wrong with that?
>
> Mgm
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