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- From: mcoffin@IASTATE.EDU (Marie Coffin)
- Subject: Re: Query: semiliterate quotation marks
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.224827@IASTATE.EDU>
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: mcoffin@IASTATE.EDU (Marie Coffin)
- Organization: Iowa State University
- References: <casseres-180193111944@missmolly.apple.com> <1993Jan19.000811.4537@netcom.com> <EMCOOP.93Jan22173140@bcars148.bnr.ca>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 04:48:27 GMT
- Lines: 41
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- In article <EMCOOP.93Jan22173140@bcars148.bnr.ca>, emcoop@bnr.ca (hume smith)
- writes:
- > 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?
-
- Oh, get off your high horse. We talked about this only last week. The
- answer is no: Hume's question is not a contraction of Hume his question.
-
- Now cut out the sentence fragments, stop spelling "no one" as "no-one", and
- don't bite your nails.
-
-
- Marie Coffin
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-