Errors / Typos in the playlist

[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

Originally posted by mailotron
Hi RL,
Ok RL , please try to be a little bit more indulgent or a wee bit more tolerant of people who like me are not natural born english speakers.
I know my english is bad as my swahili and russian are and I don't need private lessons
Regards
Mailo

Evidently my humor missed the mark (not surprising).

English, by its very definition, is not an easy language to learn. My point was that to be grammatically correct, it would be 'than', and not 'then'. It's one of those little things that confuse even natural born english speakers, and forces American English teachers to utter such phrases as "I'll take a double rye on the rocks."

A look through my spam folder on my email client shows some interesting bastardizations of the language. It's like someone found a thesaurus and tossed it into a food processor, hoping that I'd buy their knock-off rolex from them. But I digress.

As for the song itself, I can only go based on what's in the file and what I can find on the web. My research has shown that the title is "Ruth is Stranger Than Richard". The 'Then' phrase turned up zero google hits, where as the 'Than' version turned up several (including a pointer to the Monty Python sketch Ministry of Silly Walks. Make of that what you will).

Anyway, when I went to look at the entry in the station, it showed up as 'Than', so if it was labelled as 'Then', then someone fixed it before I got to it.

And my French sucks. Trust me. I know better than to even try to converse with someone in French. With the exception of one weekend this summer, the last time I was anywhere near a French speaking area was 1982 in Montreal. I butchered the language then, and I'd butcher it now.

So Rick, I don't know if your posting should be answered with a 'yes', a 'no', a 'someone beat me to the fix', or 'Machina improba! Vel mihi ede potum vel mihi redde nummos meos!'

Now if you'll all excuse me, I'm going to go lay down. I think I just hurt myself.

Roger -Dot- Lee, Budyet to sosyskoj v vashem karmanye ili ve kak raz radostne uvidet' menya?