When do Canadians usually begin to spend Chirstmas Holiday?

[amigos4]

Edward,

What humor are you talking about??? riverkid and I are always serious! Of course, you Canadians are always serious, aren't you, eh?

Cheers,
Amigos4

[baqarah131]

But you don't capitalize amigos! and I sign my name without capital letters.

I think capital letters are fading from the language.
Five minutes in any internet chatroom will convince you that capital letters are an endangered species

happy new year
edward

Originally Posted by amigos4

riverkid, I don't care what all of the other people in the Forum say about you... I think you are boffo!

( I still don't like the fact that you don't capitalize the 'r' in riverkid, but I can certainly live with that minor flaw in your personality!)

Happy tubing, mi amigo, and may you have a gaseous New Year!

Cheers,
Amigos4

[amigos4]

Originally Posted by baqarah131

But you don't capitalize amigos! and I sign my name without capital letters.

I think capital letters are fading from the language.
Five minutes in any internet chatroom will convince you that capital letters are an endangered species

happy new year
edward

Edward, are you starting a new precedent for the New Year? Your traditional closing (regards edward) has been replaced by 'happy new year edward'... this means that you can no longer boast about using only your left hand to type the closing! (Don't you just admire a man who can multi-task?) Gotcha!!!

As for spending five minutes in an Internet chat room, my beloved Standard-English-loving grandmother, may her sainted soul rest in peace, would be mortified by the blatant disregard for the Queen's English that is being tossed about! She would be convinced that we are all going to hell in a handbasket for such woeful disregard for syntactical propriety!
Enjoy the evening and be sure to brush up on the art of using your right hand for completing all future correspondence.

Cheers,
Amigos4

[riverkid]

Originally Posted by baqarah131

I too did farm labor in Alberta, much of which was just shoveling manure. I told my kids I was working as a cowboy.

best wishes to all
edward

That's a cowturdboy, Edward.

[amigos4]

Originally Posted by riverkid

That's a cowturdboy, Edward.

In Arizona, the home of REAL cowboys, we'd call you a drugstore cowboy!

Cheers,
Amigos4

[riverkid]

Originally Posted by amigos4

riverkid, I don't care what all of the other people in the Forum say about you... I think you are boffo!

Cheers,
Amigos4

Thanks, Amigo.

What people say about me has nothing to do with language and how it actually works. Shooting the messenger is always the easiest route to take.

[baqarah131]

You got it. It's amazing, and disheartening, to note how quickly a simple disagreement over a technical point can get nasty.

edward

Originally Posted by riverkid

Thanks, Amigo.

What people say about me has nothing to do with language and how it actually works. Shooting the messenger is always the easiest route to take.

[baqarah131]

Yeah, I read Wuthering Heights and I read the latest John Grisham, and I want to bawl, reflecting on how the language has deteriorated.
I love usingenglish.com because it's the only forum I've found where interesting people have interesting things to say about interesting questions.
I hope your grandmother didn't live to see the English of an Internet chatroom. And by the way, the Spanish chatrooms are worse.

regards
edward

[note the recidivism]

Originally Posted by amigos4

Edward, are you starting a new precedent for the New Year? Your traditional closing (regards edward) has been replaced by 'happy new year edward'... this means that you can no longer boast about using only your left hand to type the closing! (Don't you just admire a man who can multi-task?) Gotcha!!!

As for spending five minutes in an Internet chat room, my beloved Standard-English-loving grandmother, may her sainted soul rest in peace, would be mortified by the blatant disregard for the Queen's English that is being tossed about! She would be convinced that we are all going to hell in a handbasket for such woeful disregard for syntactical propriety!
Enjoy the evening and be sure to brush up on the art of using your right hand for completing all future correspondence.

Cheers,
Amigos4