2 Feb
2004
2 Feb
'04
2:57 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoffrey Thomas" <geoffreythomas(a)onetel.net.uk>
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Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 3:14 PM
Subject: Re: Vhmrrxutkvbziepg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Williams" <dan_williams(a)ntlworld.com>
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Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: Vhmrrxutkvbziepg
That makes more sense, the nice mr. Norton must of taken it away.,
be -
Dan
Sorry to nitpick , but I've seen this on so many posts now , it should
" the nice mr. Norton must HAVE taken it away " .
It's the curse of the modern world - a homonym - all the newspapers do it
e.g. - " Tow the line " instead of " Toe the line " etc. It's all
down to
people not reading enough books.
This is not a nasty post but it really does get me going , another whisky
and I'll be fine.
Keep smiling (: ^ } .
Geoff.
What is the burning desire that makes people go out of their way to correct
grammar in posts? Unlike in programming where a decimal point in the wrong
place means something completely different , you can misspell a word and the
target audience still knows exactly what your talking about. The English
language is full of words bastardized by the locals to communicate with
whatever society conquered England at the time (Vikings, Normans, etc). The
language and spelling changes slightly every year and can be used to figure
out what society and era the text came from (I bet bootyliscious is in the
dictionary by now).