Non-words

[JIMRPT@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 7/22/2000 12:02:25 PM, Dave wrote:

<<"Vocabulary is very important in this world, not just to me, to everyone.">>
Yep, words mean things and they should not be tossed around as mere 
doohickeys.

  <<"We
all tend to take more seriously someone who says (for example) "haven't got
any" than we do someone who says "ain't got no".">>
 Well there is a grammatical faux pas here somewhere in both of the quotes, 
happens I ain't smart enough to figger out the first un but the second one 
should be "ain't gots no". 

<<"The use of non-words like "thingee" in an otherwise technical discussion
totally destroys the credibility of anything else the writer has to say.">>

Well as an offender, in the use of "thingee", I suppose that I shall have to 
settle for being ofensive until my technical and grammatical syntax and grasp 
of proper structure have risen to the level of lexicographical perfection.

 Having said dat I might, in my defense, add that I surely thinks dat de use 
of "thingee" adds just as much to the technical content and credibility of 
posts as do the like of "When does Nauga season open this year?", for example.

 Hmmph! any danged fool knows dat the Nauga was extincted shortly after the 
Late Great Unpleasantness by dem damn Yankee scallywag Carpetbaggers after de 
last, and theretofore, lost colony of Nauga were discovered twixt the Battle 
of Lookout Mountain....................(Which by the way the Yankees only won 
cause they got scared and ran away in the wrong direction!!!!!)  Ain't been 
no danged Naguas since 18 en 78. The last Nagua skins was used up by that 
Varmint Wurlitzer during the 19 en 50's and 60's.

  Well Dave, enjoyed the conversation but I "haven't got any" holes in this 
new pinblock doohickey for the new pin tuner thingees, or the fat threaded 
thingamajiggers, so I gots to go......y'all come back ya heah? :-)
Jim Bryant (FL)