Okay. I made a typing error. I think everyone's got the message by now. But what about these, since we're going to criticise each other's use of English:
'your' for 'you're'; 'off of' for 'off'; 'out' for 'out of'; 'I' for 'me'; 'me for 'I'; 'challange' for 'challenge'; 'it's' for 'its'; 'its' for 'it's' -- and very bad punctuation. Misuse of the personal pronoun is common, spelling is not very good and the article* is misused frequently. These are a few I remember. There have been +countless+ others. We all know there are people on this list for whom English is a second, sometimes even a third language and at least one of them writes better English than some of our US cousins! And I am sure the majority of us welcome all informative posts in whatever kind of English they are presented. And none of this worries me. But someone -- it was a joke and I took it as such -- drew attention to my mistake and it went on. So I thought I'd take the opportunity to say something now. People make mistakes. Some are more literate than others. This does not mean they are worse photographers because they can't spell, although this might be the case. But if we are going to pull each other's use of language to pieces, beware. Some of us are good at that kind of thing. * Often a problem for those in whose native language verbs and nouns consist of a 'stem' plus an 'ending.' D David Mann wrote: > On Nov 17, 2006, at 6:08 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > > >> My favorite misuse of metric prefixes, which, as a runner, I see all >> the time, is "K" for "k". I get lots of entry forms for "5K" races. I >> tell them that I never go running when it's that cold out. >> > > Many of the newspapers here print "kmh" as a unit of speed. For some > reason that really annoys me. > > - Dave > > > -- Dr E D F Williams www.kolumbus.fi/mimosa/ http://personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams/ 41660 TOIVAKKA – Finland - +358400706616 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
