Re: Partnership split


"Troy Steadman" <troysteadman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Martin wrote:
"DoobieDo" <doobie@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Martin" <ngng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> So why did you put an apostrophe in "doesnt" ?
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> 'cause doesnt isn't a word but does not is shortened as such

Hee hee. So you weren't trying to be clever with it's, it's and it's,
then?
Typos happen. But three in a row is ignorance. Or do you plead the
defence
that the readers knew what you meant?

Martin, are you naturally an imbecile or have you recently had a "make
under"?

In my Vth Edition COD (which was a vintage year for English BTW) under
"do":

"doesn't, and vulg. don't, for does not"

It is a perfectly good word, and much used and much loved around this
neck of the woods - where the literate people live. I think the very
least you can do is apologise to Dopey :p

Good grief - you too....?

OK - here it is in very simple, slow, basic English so you can both try to
get your head around things.

The original thread meanders off into the realms of spelling and grammar.
Nothing wrong in a little light relief.

Dopie joins in and deliberately (I had assumed - but have now been proved
wrong) introduces spelling ("grammer" and "speeling") errors, and grammar
("it's" - 3 times) errors. And Dopie specifically advised the OP not to
worry about grammar and spelling.

In a sentence which in other respects was (presumably) designed to make his
point (that it doesn't affect understanding) by actually making heaps of
errors, he in fact got the use of an apostrophe correct - just once, in the
word "doesn't".

Thus I point out the correct word by asking why he included the apostrophe
(for, assuming he was trying to get everything wrong, he would have omitted the apostrophe)

In this neck of the wood, that is sometimes known as irony - a word, if not a concept, which seems to cause you and Dopie some difficulty.

It was all too subtle for Dopie - as evidenced by his attempt to explain
that "doesn't" is a word. (Er - and for the avoidance of doubt, yes I think
I knew that...)

Furthermore, it was, apparently, all too subtle for you.

And to cap it off, neither of you has yet realised that "it's" was WRONG on
three occasions in the one sentence.

So remind me: what am I meant to apologise for, and to whom?

--
Martin

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