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- From: gtoal@pizzabox.demon.co.uk (Graham Toal)
- Subject: Re: Query: semiliterate quotation marks
- Message-ID: <C1B0uA.ABp@demon.co.uk>
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- Organization: Cuddlehogs Anonymous
- References: <EMCOOP.93Jan22113626@bcars148.bnr.ca> <C19yqJ.4JG@demon.co.uk> <EMCOOP.93Jan22173140@bcars148.bnr.ca>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 11:20:33 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <EMCOOP.93Jan22173140@bcars148.bnr.ca> emcoop@bnr.ca (hume smith) writes:
- :you have. short-term memory is all i have so far. if there's such
-
- That was the point. A full article on this subject was posted only three
- days ago. Well, four now. It's probably still in your spool area. It's
- normal net practice to read a group for three or four days before first
- posting, just to make sure you have the right feel of the group and don't
- dive in with FAQs that are regularly answered.
-
- :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.
-
- If you'd read what I said you might possibly have concluded that someone
- is writing it as we speak... (that point was made last week too)
-
- :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
-
- The meta-comment about apostrophes being for missing letters was almost
- right; the possessive 's is from a case of the language which no longer
- exists, a possessive by way of genitive I think. So John's dog is
- from Johnes dog. Or something like that.
-
- G
-