Ross you left out one of my favourites (sob)
You, Ewe and Yew!!
(Now all three of them can get back to work!)
I assume Ross, you have read that great little
book by Lynne Truss entitled "Eats Shoots and
Leaves"? Covers punctuation and grammar in depth
but is easily read and very amusing.
The title (for those that don't know it) comes
from the story of the Panda that walked into a
bar, ordered a drink, downed it, took out a
pistol and fired three shots into the air before
turning around and starting to walk out of the bar.
The barman said "Hey - who the hell are you doing that?"
The Panda replied - "I'm a Panda."
"What's a Panda?" asked the bartender.
"Look it up in your dictionary" replied the Panda.
The barman duly did and there was the entry -
"Panda - a large bear-like creature native of
China that eats, shoots, and leaves"
Just in case anyone is puzzled - and I've come
across a few that are when confronted with that -
of course it should have read -
"Panda - a large bear-like creature native of
China that eats shoots and leaves"
Punctuation makes all the difference!
Have a good weekend folks!
Peter MacGregor
At 16:09 27/10/2006, you wrote:
your and you're
there, their and they're
lose and loose
and my personal favourite: incorrect
apostrophe's just like that, especially when referring to plurals of acronyms.
LDMs, PS2s, PCs not LDM's PS2's and PC's - where is the ownership in that???
So add me to the cynical club lol. My grammar
isn't amazing (I still have some problems with
punctuation like the use of semi-colons and the
such) but I never thought apostrophes were all that difficult...
That being said, the people that annoy me aren't
the grammatically lazy, it's the really picky
ones who go red-faced on me when they're
actually wrong...I hold no stock in the opinion
of people who can't tell the difference between
quotation marks and double primes ;-)
</moan>
MOU
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