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Date:      Thu, 22 May 2003 18:53:08 -0400
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
To:        Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
Cc:        Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net>
Subject:   Re: grammar (was Re: Fwd: ESR/OSI's Unix/Linux-history-ladentreatise on SCO vs. IBM)
Message-ID:  <20030522185308.A15738@online.fr>
In-Reply-To: <3ECD3A8C.1040506@potentialtech.com>

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Bill Moran wrote:
> >>You, not "y'all".  Please.
> > 
> > 
> > No!  No!  It is merely artistic flair!
> > 
> Are you talking about the people who don't know the difference between
> "then" and "than" and think that "sux" is spelled properly?

Or people for that matter who don't know "its" from "it's" (as in,
"It'll be a good reference for a long time, despite it's topical main
subject")?

I'm no grammar nazi, but I'll admit to amusement when someone talks of
good grammar and then trips up in the very next sentence :)

Rahul



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