Comments on: Irregular Verb Watch

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 09 Jan 2004 05:26:29 +0000

My meme is fertile, yours is (?), his is virulent.

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 21:51:02 +0000

Yes, don’t forget that we Brits abandoned Benny long before his popularity waned in the US and more importantly his second home, France.

By: Kieran Healy

Kieran Healy — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 20:38:19 +0000

Me neither, thanks. Same goes for Eszter, Henry, Maria, Brian, Micah, etc.

By: Ted Barlow

Ted Barlow — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 18:59:13 +0000

I’d like to point out that I’m not British. I don’t want to be tarred with the Benny Hill brush.

By: Keith M Ellis

Keith M Ellis — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 18:04:27 +0000

I don’t really see the newsworthiness of that article. For that matter, I don’t really get the appeal of irregular verbs. I figure it’s a mysterious Brit thing. Like um, you know, other stuff is. Benny Hill, say. But hey, I’m not complaining. Y’all CT bloggers knock yourselves out.

By: John isbell

John isbell — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 17:27:25 +0000

“I am a liberal; you are a leftist; she (I reset the default) is a Communist sympathizer, and wants to make kissy-kissy with Kim Jong Il.”

By: neil

neil — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 07:35:18 +0000

Wouldn’t it make more sense, in this case, as: “I tease playfully; He makes abusive taunts; You are asking for a broken nose”?