> ----- Forwarded message from Lee Maschmeyer <[email protected]> ----- > > Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 20:04:29 -0500 > From: Lee Maschmeyer <[email protected]> > To: Dave Mielke <[email protected]> > Subject: Contraction error: be - > > Hi Dave, > > When the word "be" is followed immediately by two hyphens, it is > spelled out. But when it's followed by a space hyphen space, the > hyphen is properly expanded into two hyphens with no spaces but the > "be" is not spelled out. observe: > > Let me be--let me be. > > Let me be - let me be. > > I doubt you need examples of which of these forms is correct, but here > are some anyway: > > 6recon/ruct :at k9d ( fell{ he m/ be-- > 3sid}$ :at a diabolical w1pon t c be-- > a jolly si<t x wd be--all ! hi< > 4>m$--or suppos$ 6be--= "!'s / a gd > > Have fun, > > -- > > Lee Maschmeyer > > "Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear > to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than > what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise." > --Lewis Carroll
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