And "don't" even get me "started" on people "who use" quotation
marks "incorrectly!"
BBB
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 07:06:17 -0600, Dave Bulger wrote:
>And we must not forget the tendencie's to place apostrophe's before every
>single "s" that happen's to end the word's we're writing.
>
>Rgd's,
>Dave
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andras Iklody-Szabo [SMTP:isza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 5:45 AM
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [OM] Decimate?
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>>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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