OT: Spelling/punctuation/grammar (was Re: OT: Sci-fi (was...))

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Mon Jul 31 05:49:50 PDT 2006


Quoting Bob Rasmussen (Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:53:40 -0700 (PDT)):

> On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Fairlight wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 06:48:52PM -0500, Mike Schwartz (PC Support)
> may or may not have
> > proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
> > >    Let me tell you that this group has more important issues to
> contemplate
> > > than the correct use of English.
> >
> > Amen.  What's up with the hostility, folks?  :)
>
> I'll admit to being overtaken with irony, at least, if not hostility, by
> people grumbling about what "kids these days" are being taught, or not,
> while botching up punctuation usage.

Well, there's "oops, that was a slip of the fingers / brain fart", and
"I don't know the difference between it's and its, or there/their/they're".
Who here has not heard of "Eats, Shoots & Leaves"?

Please punctuate the following:

    John where Nancy had had had had had had had had had had had a
    better effect.


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