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To: LindyBill who wrote (274249)	10/13/2008 5:46:09 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794149

One should study golf to learn English. "In the swing of it", "At sixes and sevens", "The financial system is a bit below par". Which is back to front and Latinistas or Latinistos or whatever they are, would bore people with the detail that "par" is Latin for parity or something. Yawn. It's best to learn golf by playing golf, not studying billiards, learn to fly and airliner by flying, not driving ship or blimp, and English by learning English, preferably in action. <Were you aware that English has the biggest vocabulary of any language?> That's not surprising since most things are invented in English and we incorporate [Latin root corporeal which is like corpse and copse [in which one hides a corpse] caused by corpulence] swarms of words such as glasnost, restaurant, sushi, kangaroo, kiwi etc. We even take back words which were borrowed from English, such as karaoke [oke being short for orchestra] so even when the Japanese try to get a new word, we pinch it back from them and make their new one our own. I am very happy to have references in literature blank to me. Google knows the things I don't know and need to know. I'm hoping to do away with needing most of my brain. Imagine no school = when children want to know something, Google just pops it into their heads. Knowledge won't die and will be instantly available to each new generation, in entirety. Mqurice PS: Sorry to have posted, riling up the locals. I will now withdraw [and fix my flat car battery ... grrrr]

To: LindyBill who wrote (274249)	10/13/2008 6:05:32 PM
From: Ish	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794149

A little thing has popped into my head about the sell off. Unless the market pops back quickly owners of mutual funds that reinvest the dividends will be screwed. Double taxes. Ok, you have a mutual fund and reinvest the dividends and it was worth $50k Dec. 31. Now it's worth $30k. Will you get a 1099 saying you lost $20K? Don't bet your ass on that. You don't sell it, you don't get the deduction. And you can only deduct $3k a year. Now the kicker. Next year you get a dividend of $2k. Will you get a 1099 that you made $2k. Now that you can bet your ass on. You paid taxes on the money you invested and lost and now are paying taxes on the money that is repaying the loss.