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- From: ccjal@cc.newcastle.edu.au (John A Lambert)
- Subject: Re: English usage
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.215036.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
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- Organization: University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA
- References: <1992Aug26.141105.424@client61.comlab.ox.ac.uk> <27947@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 11:50:36 GMT
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- In article <27947@sophia.inria.fr>, jmale@uranie.inria.fr (Jean-Michel Male) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug26.141105.424@client61.comlab.ox.ac.uk>, carroll@comlab.ox.ac.uk (Carroll Morgan) writes:
- > C.Morgan|> In written English, at the moment anyway, "its" means "belonging to it", and "it's"
- > C.Morgan|> means "it is". Thus for example
- >
- > C.Morgan|> Its orange? It's orange!
- >
- > C.Morgan|> Carroll Morgan
- >
- >
- > Thanks a lot for your grammatical lesson, and feel
- > free to correct my poor English if there's any
- > mispelled or uncorrect expression.
- >
- > We (all non English-speaking netters) have had
- > (or will have) some trouble reading some posts,
- > because the poster writes as (s)he speaks, and
- > may be the most interesting ones --- the flames ;-),
- > the debates --- are the less readable for non
- > Americans.
- >
- > So, Carroll, Do you intend to fight for the respect
- > of English grammar ? Can I expect to read flames
- > that I could understand when those overseas english
- > speaking will alter Shakespeare language?
- >
- > Does Britannia still rule English?
- > --
- >
- >
- > Jean-Michel MALE' \\\\\
- > - -
- > INRIA, Projet SINUS, < )
- > Centre de Sophia-Antipolis \/
- > 06565 Valbonne (FRANCE)
- >
- > Email: jmale@mirsa.inria.fr
- >
- >
- >
- > (Mort aux vaches !)
- --
- The right place for all this is in alt.usage.english
-
- John
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