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- From: emcoop@bnr.ca (hume smith)
- Subject: Re: Query: semiliterate quotation marks
- In-Reply-To: mdb@netcom.com's message of Tue, 19 Jan 1993 00:08:11 GMT
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:36:26 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan19.000811.4537@netcom.com> mdb@netcom.com (Mark Bisgeier) writes:
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- casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) writes:
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- >reading "Egg's"...That's no accident of illiteracy...
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- You're right -- it's *deliberate* illiteracy!
-
- and you've no idea how much i itch when i see that sort of thing! :-)
-
- this reminds me of something i heard from someone once and i'd like
- some sort of confirmation. i.e.: there is a very simple rule about
- when the apostrophe is used - ONLY for contractions - keeping
- in mind (and here's the part i'm worried about) that possessives
- such as "Doug's" and "the dog's" were, once, long ago, "Doug his" and
- "the dog its".
-
- can someone REALLY into the history of the language confirm or
- deny this for me?
-
- (BTW - forgive my not capitalising where i should. it's my own little
- usenet style. probably exactly the sort of thing this group hates.)
- --
- Hume Smith Honour sick and davey cris-cross
- hume.smith@acadiau.ca McTruloff sentimie
- emcoop@bnr.ca A parsnip inner pair threes.
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