On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:43:06 -0800, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:

>Stephen wrote:
>> On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:29:43 -0800, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> 
>>> Stephen wrote:
>>>> "Save for the weather, we would have had fun"?
>>> That sounds much more British to my ear, actually. Interesting.
>> 
>> Funnily enough I am British :-)
>

I was just being sarky :)

>I gathered that, based on your "pond" references. I mean, it's funny that 
>the British have stricter rules about not starting a sentence with a 
>preposition, and to this American at least, using "save" instead of "but" 
>there gives the sentence a British flavor. Or flavour.
>

Why do you say that "it's funny that the British have stricter rules about not
starting a sentence with a preposition"? I would have thought that we had
stricter rules than Americans. At least in theory ;)


>Not surprising, really, but interesting.

True, interesting.
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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