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- Subject: Re: English usage
- Message-ID: <jenner-270892084357@bobjenner.ntu.edu.au>
- From: jenner@post.ntu.edu.au (Bob Jenner)
- Date: 27 Aug 92 08:47:11 +0900
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- References: <1992Aug26.141105.424@client61.comlab.ox.ac.uk> <aumantb-260892120153@eclipse.msfc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <aumantb-260892120153@eclipse.msfc.nasa.gov>,
- aumantb@eclipse.msfc.nasa.gov (Tim Aumann) wrote:
- >
- > In article <1992Aug26.141105.424@client61.comlab.ox.ac.uk>,
- > carroll@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Carroll Morgan) wrote:
- > >
- > > In written English, at the moment anyway, "its" means "belonging to it", and "it's"
- > > means "it is". Thus for example
- > >
- > > Its orange? It's orange!
- > >
- > > Carroll Morgan
- >
- > Ok, that is very nice, but so what? I agree, we should all use proper
- > English, and I endeavour to do so. But most posts on usenet are written
- > very quickly, by very busy people, with rather unsophistocated editors.
- > Mistakes caused by either carelessness or ignorance (of proper usage) are
- > bound to occur. I know that I often wind up misspelled (really chewed up)
- > words all the time. These things need to be overlooked as just something
- > that happens.
- >
- > --
- > Tim Aumann
- > aumantb@eclipse.msfc.nasa.gov
- > "All opinions are my own, and I have no one to blame but myself."
- It's :-) also important to bear in mind that contributions come from all
- over the world and we should not be arrogant about the use of English. I
- often admire the fact that users from countries with an "inverse" grammar
- construction do such a good job with English. Who cares anyway? Remember
- the wasteful debate on split infinitives? Why am I replying to this crap?
-
- Cheers
- Bob Jenner
- Northern Territory University
- Darwin, Australia
-