[rules-dev] English as a 2nd Language

Greegings: Here I am returning to Drools list again as an interloper. I think perhaps that we should all revisit "My Fair Lady" [based on "Pygmalion"] and the very first so-called song, "Why Can't the English Teach Their Children How to Speak?" as spoken-sung by Rex Harrison (the Professor Dolittle character). You see, even the English themselves very rarely know the proper English constructs of their own language, especially when spoken, and even when written they seem to leave dangling prepositions and intransitive verbs, such as "to" or "from", at the end of a sentence. It virtually makes ones skin crawl at times. Here in the colonies even the national news casters make the most appaling mistakes. It's no wonder that the children in either country can make themselves understood these days without making a mistake in a single spoken sentence. Here in the Southern and Texan climes, "can't" often rhymes with paint and ain't, "get" rhymes with hit and, most dredfull of all, we most often hear, "Where are you going to?" quite often. The other phrase in the South is, "What are you fixing to do?" meaning, "What you about to do?" Only in the South... So, even though you find many mistakes in the English language in Drools code and documentation, bear with it. It is NOT as bad as it appears and, if you can understand the overall meaning and if the general intent is clear, leave it alone and let it ride. Correct it only if the meaning is not clearly understood or if the meaning is muddled and not clear to the ordinary mortal, such as the beginner or the intermediate programmer. -- SDG jco