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To: RipSawyer
"Flame away if you will but the inability to communicate creates all kinds of problems and this type of misusage, which i was cautioned against in grade school, is heard daily on television news programs."

Sorry, grammar police. I said it was a paraphrase of a quote, and it was either Yogi Berra or Norm Crosby, one of the true linguists, who authored it. In either case, it was meant to be one of those quotes that gets you thinking, a head shaker, but in the end it is accurate.

By the way, Webster, make sure you capitalize all your i's (sic). You were probably sick for that lesson in grade school.

165 posted on 03/07/2004 10:08:23 PM PST by dmzTahoe (Go Zags!!!...#4 and still rising.)
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To: dmzTahoe
Failure to capitalize is an oversight for which I apologize, the error I pointed out may have been your own or only a quotation but my point is that it is used daily by television newscasters and others who should know better.

I am well aware that I should be capitalized but the people to whom I refer seem to believe they are following correct usage. This was not meant as a personal attack.
167 posted on 03/08/2004 5:53:59 AM PST by RipSawyer (Mercy on a pore boy lemme have a dollar bill!)
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