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- From: emcoop@bnr.ca (hume smith)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: Query: semiliterate quotation marks
- Message-ID: <EMCOOP.93Jan22173140@bcars148.bnr.ca>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 22:31:40 GMT
- References: <casseres-180193111944@missmolly.apple.com> <1993Jan19.000811.4537@netcom.com>
- <EMCOOP.93Jan22113626@bcars148.bnr.ca> <C19yqJ.4JG@demon.co.uk>
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- Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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- In-Reply-To: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk's message of Fri, 22 Jan 1993 21:37:29 GMT
- Nntp-Posting-Host: bcars148
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- In article <C19yqJ.4JG@demon.co.uk> gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
-
- ARGH!!!!!!!!
-
- Jeez, the short term memory on this group is getting as bad as a.f.u
-
- Even if Mark finishes the FAQ file, he's going to have to post it daily :-(
-
- G
-
- oh, so sorry. but not everyone has been reading this group as long as
- you have. short-term memory is all i have so far. if there's such
- desperate need for a FAQ in your opinion, you'd better throw some effort
- into it yourself, instead of blasting the firat innocent trying to
- improve his understanding of the language.
-
- this explanation of apostrophe usage was quite new to me. no-one else
- i've ever mentioned it to had heard of it. it sounded plausible to me,
- but i wanted some more information before i decided to store it under
- "facts" in my mind, if you will. did i misjudge the potential of this
- newsgroup? is it merely for flaming others for using grammar different
- from yours, spelling words incorrectly by accident, or trying to separate
- fact from fiction? i thought perhaps someone here might have some modicum
- of knowledge about the matter. or at least intellectual curiosity. perhaps
- i was mistaken.
-
- now: does someone out there have something USEFUL to say?
- --
- 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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