Re: Hypercorrection

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 13:53:20 GMT, "Madra Dubh"
<ccaine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>"Michilín" <micheil@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4348be47.54014248@xxxxxxx
>> On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 23:46:35 GMT, "Madra Dubh"
>> <ccaine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"Michilín" <micheil@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>news:434817ff.11446549@xxxxxxx
>>>> On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 16:14:49 +0200, "Lesley Robertson"
>>>> <l.a.robertson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>"Deirdre" <finch.enteract@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>>>news:43467BF6.27235ED0@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Lesley Robertson wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> "Deirdre" <finch.enteract@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>>>>> news:4345C1BE.29DD04CE@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Since it's the lovely Dr Jenkins posting, I suspect he's talking
>>>>>>> about
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> scs Hall of Fame - did you by any chance send in a pic, or notice
>>>>>>> someone
>>>>>>> lurking around corners with a camera....?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> No, I gave it to him to do with as he liked...
>>>>>> put it up or not. I figure as long as I'm
>>>>>> going to be taken apart for a photo on
>>>>>> the web, it might as well be a recent one...
>>>>>> and that one was taken last April.
>>>>>>
>>>>>That's pretty noble of you - mine's a couple of years out of date.
>>>>>Lesley Robertson
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> The ones on your website are recent though, aren't they? I thought you
>>>> turned a fine-looking ankle!
>>>
>>>My God, Highlander.
>>>That was positively Victorian!!!!
>>> ;=)
>>
>> Really? You mean people don't talk like that anymore?
>> I'll try the North Carolina way.
>> "My - don't you look fetchin'!"
>
>No, I liked the "fine-looking ankle" phrase.
>But I must admit I first read it as "Well turned ankle", not "Fine looking
>ankle".
>My speed-reading is still deteriorating as I age.

Maybe that was what I mean to write? I don't live in an
English-speaking milieu any more, so my grasp of the language is
slowly slipping away.



Murchadh
.

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