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To: Windflier

Thank you - it’s late, and I really did not want to have to explain that....


75 posted on 02/04/2010 10:37:00 PM PST by GnuHere
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To: GnuHere
...it’s late, and I really did not want to have to explain that....

I hear you. I'm tired, too, but I see the poor apostrophe abused so often that it makes me ill about the general level of English spelling, punctuation, and grammar.

I remember a time when such errors in spelling were rare - even among those without an expert command of the language.

Folks used to learn the simple basics of where and when to use the apostrophe when they were in grade school.

Nowadays, even college grads can't seem to master it. Even the dang Precedent can't properly pronounce the word corpsman, and he's supposedly "highly" educated!

80 posted on 02/04/2010 10:51:10 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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