From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 22 14:26:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42F1F37B407 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 14:26:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1a-215.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.170.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5332843F93 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 14:26:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) h4ML100n018618; Thu, 22 May 2003 17:01:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3ECD3A8C.1040506@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 17:01:00 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen McKay References: <20030520203225.GA30587@thyrsus.com> <200305221613.h4MGDNLR016491@dungeon.home> In-Reply-To: <200305221613.h4MGDNLR016491@dungeon.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: grammar (was Re: Fwd: ESR/OSI's Unix/Linux-history-ladentreatise on SCO vs. IBM) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 21:26:01 -0000 Stephen McKay wrote: > On Wednesday, 21st May 2003, brian@planetshwoop.com wrote: > > >>On Tue, 20 May 2003, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: >> >> >>>What's worse is that y'all apply the same old propaganda about gifts to >> >> ^^^^^ >> >>You commend his grammar and then stick that whammie in there? >> >>You, not "y'all". Please. > > > No! No! It is merely artistic flair! > > Once he's established his impeccable grasp of grammar he is permitted to > bend it in order to demonstrate his grasp of the vernacular, hence showing > he not only knows the Official Grammar, but also a Dialect. It's a solid > points scorer. > > This isn't the same as the 99% of Internet users who believe a valid > contraction of "you are" is "your", or the other new percent who know > about "you're", but believe it is a possessive pronoun. > > Salt with :-) as necessary, and enjoy your language! Are you talking about the people who don't know the difference between "then" and "than" and think that "sux" is spelled properly? -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com