Re: Read what you type

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 08:23:57 GMT, Mike
<matuatakesitupthearse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Charles wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 08:24:44 +0800, rick boyd <boyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Fantail wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Don't you posters read what you type before you hit the post button?
>>>
>>>No, we don't. This is a newsgroup, not a grammar symposium. We don't
>>>have all day to sit around nit-picking for minor typo's. It's
>>>conversational English and the quick and immediate conveyance of the
>>>gist is more important than school marm pedantry.
>>
>>
>> Oh, really?
>>
>> Then who was it who pedantically pointed out recently:
>>
>> "The apostrophe does not indicate a plural. This is known as 'the
>> grocer's apostrophe'. The apostrophe indicates possession or
>> contraction. It should be 'typos'."
>>
>> After Mike had said:
>>
>> Mike wrote:
>>
>> "PPS Any typo's, spelling or grammatical errors are completely
>> deliberate on the part of the author and intended in joke or to test
>> the reader."
>>
>> As I said at the time, Rick is full of wind and piss and double
>> standards, with a sense of humour that allows him to laugh only at his
>> own alleged 'funnies'!! ;o)
>>
>> It's no coincidence that Rick is only a pee away from prick!! ;o)
>
>Quoted by Charles on RSRU, can there be no higher accolade!

Only a dubbing Mike, only a dubbing!! ;o)
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