Re: Adobe as bad as Micro$oft ?!

[Tom Baker]

Well, I guess if we're going to get fussy about grammar and syntax 
around here, we ought to get the its and it's business straight. The 
possessive pronouns are correctly written: his, hers and its. NOT hi's, 
her's, and it's. If people can get "his" and "hers" right, why can't 
they also understand the correct form of "its?" When you put in the 
apostrophe, it's stands for "it is," not "belonging to it." So if we 
were to speak the improperly written sentence below, we would have to 
say "Though English has IT IS roots in England . . ." which makes no 
sense.

On Sep 20, 2004, at 5:49 PM, Tim Collier wrote:
(ducking) Since most of the people who speak English in this world 
live in the US, I say we set the standards for the language.  Though 
English has it's roots in England, the standard spoken worldwide is no 
longer British English, it is American English.
There, I've spoken, so it's fact.

Tim
On Sep 20, 2004, at 11:31 AM, James S Jones wrote:
This is part of the artificial BBC English dialect. Because people 
have now heard it in broadcasts for nearly a century, its usage is 
now commonplace in areas where the BBC has a large audience. For the 
rest of us, it's like hearing fingernails on a chalkboard.

On Sep 20, 2004, at 4:52 AM, Joe wrote:
On Sep 20, 2004, at 6:43 AM, Andrew Grebneff wrote:
We all know how bad Micro$oft are (have been ?)
Is. Singular. It IS a company.
Unless you're in the U.K. where singular nouns referring to a group 
are treated as plural ("the team are").
Exterminate all rational thought.
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