On 4/17/2013 11:11 AM, sf wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 21:02:02 +1000, John J > wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:33:10 -0500, Alan Holbrook >
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Metspitzer > wrote in
>>> :
>>>
>>>> I was taught not too put my elbows on the table in a restaurant.
>>> Since
>>>> it is a very comfortable position, I ignore my manners. When
>>> that
>>>> happens, I always look around and find, at least, half of the
>>> room
>>>> doing the same.
>>>>
>>>
>>> If you google "origin of manners and etiquette", you get close to
>>> 800,000 hits. The concensus of the few I read seems to be that
>>> manners were developed for many different reasons, some of them to
>>> create a discipline in social situations and some of them just
>>> plain arbitrarily to make a distinction between the upper classes
>>> and the peasants. And as society changes, so do manners.
>>>
>>> There's a lot of similarity between etiquette and grammer in this
>>> context.
>>
>> And spelling?
>
> Completely up to whomever wrote the dictionary you use to arbitrate
> the situation.
>
Especially for "grammer"!

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Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)

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