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[OM] OTP Literary Arrogance (Was Decimate?)

Subject: [OM] OTP Literary Arrogance (Was Decimate?)
From: Dave Bulger <dbulger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 07:06:17 -0600
And we must not forget the tendencie's to place apostrophe's before every 
single "s" that happen's to end the word's we're writing.

Rgd's,
Dave

-----Original Message-----
From:   Andras Iklody-Szabo [SMTP:isza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:   Wednesday, January 27, 1999 5:45 AM
To:     olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:        Re: [OM] Decimate?

>In <v04011705b2cd00f001b9@[128.49.222.150]>, on 01/21/99 at 09:18 AM,
>   Patrick Greenlee <patrickg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
>
>>I never cease to be amazed at the various uses of decimate.
>
>I have made a practice of clenching my teeth and forcing myself to read
>past such gaffes, but since you've cracked the ice...let me add another
>abomination to linguisitic misuse: substituting "alot" for "a lot,"
>which is swiftly becoming a tocsin for a descent into illiteracy.
>
>les clark


How about your and you're? Even seemingly literate people (with English as
their mother tongue) don't seem to be able to distinguish between these.


Andras Iklody-Szabo
Caracas / Venezuela



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