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waider ([personal profile] waider) wrote2003-04-02 04:22 pm
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but it's their native tongue!

The British are still encircling Basra on three sides.


Caroline Wyatt, BBC reporter. I thought these people knew how to speak English.
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[identity profile] tritone.livejournal.com 2003-04-02 08:42 am (UTC)(link)
Eh, I don't think this one's that heinous. A square has four sides, right?

[identity profile] nothings.livejournal.com 2003-04-02 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
So they're ensquaring?

[identity profile] tritone.livejournal.com 2003-04-02 06:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. Duh. Somehow my eyes went right over "encircling". I guess my grasp of English isn't that gud eether.

Maybe they're entriangling. Triangulating.
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