Please take this in the spirit with which it is intended...
You write well and this story is very sweet, but it would be so much better if you realised that there is a difference between "then" and "than".

e.g. it should be "So I know I'm a lot younger thAn most of the people here"

Please? :)

Oh, and on topic - I always say that I hate religious nutters. People don't always get that it means that I hate the ones who are nutters, I quite like the ones that aren't like your friend. If only there were more of them and less of the nutters :)
(xanthine, Sun 22 Mar 2009, 23:37, 2 replies)

Interesting
V-cat's Australian. She probably pronounces 'than' like 'then', hence the mistake.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 23 Mar 2009, 8:52, closed)

we don't actually have
"Than" as part of our phonetic lingo as far as I'm aware - you're right.

Sorry about that.

I do say "than" as "then". Always have.
(Poppet some assembly required., Wed 25 Mar 2009, 11:44, closed)

on topic
Xanthene,

Do you hate the ones who are nutters but still wish there were more of them around? The ones that are not like V-cat's friend?

"I quite like the ones that aren't like your friend." = nutters?

I'm confuzzled. :(
(herefromthere, Tue 24 Mar 2009, 8:19, closed)