From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 22 15:53:14 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 E3DD037B401 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 15:53:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from papagena.rockefeller.edu (papagena.rockefeller.edu [129.85.41.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7B7B43FA3 for ; Thu, 22 May 2003 15:53:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@papagena.rockefeller.edu) Received: (from rsidd@localhost) by papagena.rockefeller.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h4MMr8S15745; Thu, 22 May 2003 18:53:08 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 18:53:08 -0400 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Bill Moran Message-ID: <20030522185308.A15738@online.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3ECD3A8C.1040506@potentialtech.com> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.9-12smp i686 cc: chat@freebsd.org cc: Stephen McKay 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 22:53:15 -0000 Bill Moran wrote: > >>You, not "y'all". Please. > > > > > > No! No! It is merely artistic flair! > > > Are you talking about the people who don't know the difference between > "then" and "than" and think that "sux" is spelled properly? Or people for that matter who don't know "its" from "it's" (as in, "It'll be a good reference for a long time, despite it's topical main subject")? I'm no grammar nazi, but I'll admit to amusement when someone talks of good grammar and then trips up in the very next sentence :) Rahul