State officials shut down shrimping in Gulf amid scientists finding deformities

http://enenews.com/state-officials-shut-down-shrimping-in-gulf-amid-scientists-finding-deformities-and-horrifying-creatures-media-attributes-closure-to-lesions-then-retracts ^

[chessplayer]

Alarmed by widespread reports of visibly sick, deformed seafood coming out of the Gulf of Mexico, state officials have closed area waters to shrimping this morning (April 23). The waters will be closed indefinitely as scientists run tests in an effort to get a handle on a situation that is fast becoming a full-blown crisis on the Gulf Coast.

The closures – including all waters in the Mississippi Sound, Mobile Bay, areas of Bon Secour, Wolf Bay and Little Lagoon – mark the first official step in responding to increasingly urgent reports from fishermen and scientists of grotesquely disfigured seafood from Louisiana to the Florida panhandle.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I’m going to assume that you mean “voila”, which is a French word.

I’m going to assume that you mean "voilà," which is a French word.

Further, I am going to have to assume you dropped French before the use of accent grave was taught.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

I took a year of Latin, French, Spanish and German in high school. Didn’t everyone else? :-)

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

You’re complaining about an accent? :-)

I have a little cheat sheet taped to the keyboard for special characters. Unfortunately, I don’t have the “a” with the backward accent.

[xone]

zot

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I am not complaining about anything, although my French teacher would have subtracted points for an omitted or incorrect accent.

BTW, I am proof learning a foreign language in high school is not all it is cracked up to be. I took 4 years of French & retained maybe ½ day's worth of knowledge. :)

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

“I took 4 years of French & retained maybe ½ day’s worth of knowledge.”

With four years of four different foreign languages that I took in high school, I found that the one year of Latin was the best choice even though I wasn’t aware of it at the time. It is the “foundation” of the others and English, also.