>In <v04011705b2cd00f001b9@[128.49.222.150]>, on 01/21/99 at 09:18 AM,
> Patrick Greenlee <patrickg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>
>>I never cease to be amazed at the various uses of decimate.
>
>I have made a practice of clenching my teeth and forcing myself to read
>past such gaffes, but since you've cracked the ice...let me add another
>abomination to linguisitic misuse: substituting "alot" for "a lot,"
>which is swiftly becoming a tocsin for a descent into illiteracy.
>
>les clark
How about your and you're? Even seemingly literate people (with English as
their mother tongue) don't seem to be able to distinguish between these.
Andras Iklody-Szabo
Caracas / Venezuela
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