Oh Karma. I know you are kidding. I am also pulling your leg. Thus the bunch of smilies in my posts.
I am not even English (as in "English speaker"). I'm French (as in "French speaker"), from Québec.
But, as much as we like to speak our own little idioma, and although a lot of us hate to admit it, the language's norm is in France. Speak France's French and you're understood in any French speaking country in the world, speak Quebec French and people are bound to look at you and ask "Pardon?".

Speak Quebec French to me, and all I will say is "Je ne parle pas français" or something like that......but it will be pronounced incorrectly because I got a "C" in French class....

Hey! I'm English, and I have seen some real nipples in my day, oh yes.
/me goes back to reading "Nipples Monthly", (only available in England, apparently)

Of course, you do realise I am referring to grease nipples, those found on engines etc.
/me changes to reading "Huge Breasts Monthly", after tiring of looking at nipples in the other mag.

What's this sudden obsession with nipples, I mean, they are such common things. In fact, in the world today, there are twice as many nipples as people. Bet you didn't know that...

Anyway, I thought a palindrome was some kind of horse...

Who said it was a sudden obsession? I've had it for as long as I can remember!

Actuall more than twice as many.

You mean counting animals?

no, some folks have 3. There's a name for it, but I don't remember what it is. The Chandler character on Friends called it a "Nubbin"

Jafo..As for short 'sentences', often a response to a specific question bypasses traditional subject-predicate-action syntax....'see Spot run'...and therefore 'I' could very well be a legitimate 'complete utterance, or sentence...all 'related' intent/content remaining implied...

That is what I was thinking... though in the case of I, in the cases where people should properly use I, they usually say me. Who deserves this million dollars I am about ready to give away? Me? Though what is implied is "do I? I seem to remember an old rule that bows to overwhelming nonconformity to some language rules... it is how language evolves after all. A lot of our common contractions went through that process...

i don't really have any comments about the thread.. boxxi just set off my radar for the term 'huge breasts' and here i am. i guess i've always found them far more interesting than racing cars. or race cars either, for that matter. however, when i was a teenager, such magazines as car and driver led me to believe there was a definite association between the two.

Let's break it right down to bare minimum, at least in the written language. To express surprise, we could just write an exclamation point. Everyone knows what it means. Hell, let's do away with letters altogether.

How did the person react to winning a million dollars, she asked. "!", she replied.

Yo!!!!!

I read this whole thread and I still do not understand how "Race Car" is a palindrome.

Race.

Car.

???

back into it JTB

The letters in "Race car" are r-a-c-e-c-a-r.
Reverse the letters and,..... r-a-c-e-c-a-r.

A palindrome, by definition.

How did the person react to winning a million dollars, she asked. "!", she replied.

BTW, this thread was really meant to be a depository for little know or meaningless facts. Guess it is staying it's course.

I think emoticons are going to take language full circle... back to petroglyphic notation!

GM, that would probably work for most everyday conversation, but how would one use emoticons to express a really complex idea, such as Einstein's General Relativity Theory?

Here is a link to both the General and Special Relativity theories. http://www.bartleby.com/173/ Read them over. (shouldn't take more than a day. ), then express them as emoticons.

Of course, I'm only kidding.

Brit: "Yank, where did you learn to mispronounce 'shedule' as 'skedule'?
Yank: "I think it was in grammar shool."

I read parts of them already.... you have a point there. Let me get back to you on the emotic ouline...(though the wc selection is limited)!

Once I even wondered if internet nicknames would start appearing as names... and suddenly the old scifi books seemed kind of prophetic. DEG... KREG USH

'Brit: "Yank, where did you learn to mispronounce 'shedule' as 'skedule'?
Yank: "I think it was in grammar shool."'

...not to be confused with "shule". Where my wife goes every Shabbat.