On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:09, Michael JasonSmith wrote: > On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 22:28 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote: > > At least he got the apostrophe in the right place! > > Now does everyone see why GNOME banned the accursed character? > http://developer.gnome.org/documents/style-guide/grammar.html <generalisation type='sweeping'> <!- but pretty close to the truth imho --> The GNOME people had to write an English grammar lesson because the school systems in most English speaking countries fail spectacularly in that activity. </generalisation>
What would be interesting is to know whether schools in countries which use other languages similarly fail to teach the grammars of their Mother Tongues? -- CS
