[UK-CONTEST] 2012 January CC alerts.

[Steve Knowles]

Hello, John.

I feel I have to leap to Robert's defence regarding the construction of the 
sentence below.

The use of the term 'none' in place of 'not' is commonplace in Mancunian and 
surrounding dialects around the turn of the century (that's C19th to C20th, 
by the way). Where today we might say "If the weather's bad I won't go 
fishing," it was then quite normal to say "If the weather's bad I'll none go 
fishing."

I'm not sure how that could account for the hyphenophobia and erotemeophobia 
evident in the same sentence, however!

Season's Greetings

Steve
G3UFY



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Simkins g8iys" <g8iys at btinternet.com>
To: <uk-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: [UK-CONTEST] 2012 January CC alerts.


> An interesting style is displayed, I observe. When I was reasonably far
> along the path of acquisition of sufficient literacy and numeracy skills
> to cope with joined-up writing and expression (aged about 9 years), as
> opposed to thinking, I had come to understand that the appropriate
> compound adjective was "non-existent", rather than "none existent". Keep
> on trying in this area Robert, for it shows as a weakness and lets you
> down. I cannot comment on your joined-up thinking skills, for I have not
> seen any, so far. 73. John G8IYS.
>
> On 27/12/11 10:05, Robert wrote:
>> Alerts are being sent out for the none existent CW CC contest on January 
>> 2nd. Can we have some joined up thinking from the Committee please.
>>
>> Robert. G8BUN/M0JRB.
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