Well I hope you saw the <g> at the end of that paragraph indicating
that I was only joking! One of these days I have to look up some old
classical books I read when I was young because I picked up my writing
style, methods, and vocabulary from reading...I hardly ever made grade
school at all...and I wonder if in classical English, "it's" used to be
proper? I've actually made a conscience effort to stop spelling it this way
since it was first brought to my attention not long ago right here, but my
head is usually two sentences ahead of my fingers and that makes it
difficult to break old topics.
In any case this thread is too off topic for the Delphi List so...
from Robert Meek dba Tangentals Design CCopyright 2006
"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion
that the gift of Fantasy has meant more to me then my talent for absorbing
positive knowledge!"
Albert Einstein
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Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 2:46 PM
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Subject: Re: D2006 and TabStops
Rob Kennedy wrote:
<snipz>
> By the way, "it's" is a contraction for "it is." The possessive form of
> "it" is "its." (It goes with the all other possessive pronouns, which
> also lack apostrophes: his, hers, ours, theirs, yours, mine.)
Thanks for that. The its/it's distinction is one of my pet bugaboos in
writen text, but I always feel like a insufferable pedant when I point
it out to folks.
Stephen Posey
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