Has the Code Of Conduct changed? ...again?

[Richard Owlett]

jdow wrote:
> From: "Graham Todd"<grahamtodd2 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, 2010/December/20 01:13
>
>
>> On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 11:48:11 +0800
>> "Goh Lip"<g.lip at gmx.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Heh heh heh, allow me a light-hearted whining...
>>> Being on this mailing list has made me a much slower reader of
>>> (english language) publications. I find I have to pause at every
>>> 'your' and 'you're' (and others as well) to see if they mean exactly
>>> what is written. (Huffington post, CNN, Cablegates<by diplomats>
>>> made similar mistakes too) Being a non-native english speaker, I
>>> wonder if this affects the natives too.  :)
>> [snipped]
>>
>> Actually, CNN, Huffington Post, etc, that you name are all North
>> American, *not* English, but the rules pertaining to the North American
>> language are similar to (but not the same as) English (wot is spoke
>> in England).
>>
>> It irritates me (and many other native English speakers in England) to
>> have the English language emasculated in this way.  If North Americans
>> want to call their language English, it should conform to the Queen's
>> English and the O.E.D. (Oxford English Dictionary).
>>
>> And if I sound like Disgusted of Maidstone, I am just that!
>>
>> --
>> Graham Todd
>
> Graham, I correspond with and have talked with British school system
> products who are fully as miserable with their native tongue as any
> American is with the American brand of English.
>
> Face it, we both suffer with 3rd world public educational systems. Only
> the private schools seem to turn out some modicum of literacy.
>
> {o.o}   (Three pages of text as one passive voice sentence punctuated
>          with a hundred or so semi-colons is exhausting to read, trust
>          me. That gem was written by a British engineer. I broke it up
>          into several paragraphs in active voice. It no longer put its
>          victims to sleep. {^_-})
>

I've even heard BBC 'presenters' mangle the King's (er Queen's) 
English. Didn't have pen and paper available to preserve it - my 
clock radio tuned to a PBS station which carries BBC worldwide.