On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, DaZZa wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote:
>
> > One of my pet hates is the use of 'loose' instead of 'lose'. The
> > Slashdot comments are usually full of the misuse of this word. Not to
> > mention 'affect' and 'effect', the misspelling of the word 'potato'
> > (thanks, Dan Quayle) and the long lost meaning of 'ironic' (thanks,
> > Alanis Morriset).
I think she was talking about "ironic pentameter" .. it was after she saw
the movie of Baz Lurhman's Romeo & Julius Caesar.
> And the continual confusion between your and you're. There's nothing that
> peeves me off more.
>
> DaZZa
Oh no! not the recalcitrant apostrophe. It's misuse is so bad
its a blight on English.
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