Michael Herger wrote: >> Did you miss the ";)" at the bottom of my post? > > Maybe. But it doesn't matter: the whole discussion is a joke :-). > > I just find it interesting to see how Anglophiles can care about their > language, while we get spoilt with anglicisms. Worst of all some of them > find their way into our language in a completely false way. Take eg. the > Saxon genetiv (is this what you call it?) "'s". It's used in any place now > where you would put a single S: plurals, verbs ending in an s etc. It's so > stupid I found myself using it too :-/. I remember my German teacher > giving me a lesson after I had used it in a genetive (where it would have > been correct at least in English). Ever since I try to avoid it. And this > must have been almost... gee, I'm getting old.
That's just bad punctuation - and is a pet hate of mine too. Others include you're/your, their/they're, etc. I learned more about the English language in Latin class than I did in English class! R. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
