Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 13:57:18 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Different subject now, you have been warned! [was: Re: [WSFA] Re: Has anyone read any good books lately?]
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 12:33 PM 3/28/05 -0500, Ted White wrote:
>From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
>> At 10:22 AM 3/28/05 -0500, Mike B. wrote:
>>
>> >There are lots of other reasons to hate Outlook and it's lite
>>
>> You know, I think the internet causes brain damage.  At one time I actually
>> got "it's" and "its" correct all the time, but years of seeing it done
>> incorrectly have seriously blunted my proofing skills...

>As I have pointed out to countless people, countless times, "it's" means
>"it is" and nothing else, ever.

Are you suggesting that I didn't know that already or something?  I thought
my message pretty clearly indicated that I knew that?

My point was that what you see most often is what tends to seem "right",
regardless of what really is right or whether you know better, and that the
internet is full of people who post it incorrectly frequently enough to
start affecting those of us who really do know better.

The same issue comes up with "they're/there/their", "here/hear" and
"your/you're" too.  Oh, and "to/two/too" too...

And don't get me started about adverbs.  They are disappearing slow but
sure...

[anyone who didn't see anything wrong with the prior sentence is now part
of the problem...]

-- Mike B.
--
Real programs don't eat cache.