english? (RE: OtR Content You'd Wish You'd Ne'er Read)

[rhys daily <shadow at teuton_org>]

On Wed, 7 Aug 2002, Sarah Herr wrote:

> You're right. But since the apostrophe is supposed to represent an
> omitted letter, shouldn't it be li'l'? OK that does look odd.

yea it does. o the joys of language, slang and idomatic usage. or
somethign.

> What bothers me the most is when people but apostrophes in words to
> make them plural: egg's, shoe's, etc. Ewwwwwwwww *shudder*

i hate it's in the improper form.

> Sarah, member of the grammar police whose English major sometimes
> comes back to haunt her

are you my sister? her name is sarah. she's a grammar polic.

i'm a fugitive (witness the way i write)

> BTW how many English majors do we have here? You're all such eloquent
> writers! ;)

does spanish count?

if it's eloquency people hanker after, i'd better get an english degree,
since that seems to help (:

i'm just a programmer.

rhys

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