On Sat, June 30, 2007 1:41 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Andrew Lentvorski as of Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 01:34:18PM > -0700: > [snip] >> >Wasn't this the sort of madness that *lead* to the creation of ASCII? >> >> I ... can't ... help ... myself ... > > Do. Not. Resist. > >> <grammar flame> >> It's *led*. Past tense of the verb "to lead". No relation to the noun >> "lead" which has an atomic symbol of Pb. >> >> At least get it right when you put it in emphasis. >> </grammar flame> > > Indeed. I am properly chastised. It didn't look right, but I was too > tired -- or more likely lazy -- to go back and look at it to see what > it was that didn't look right. > > Although, you were unnecessarily gentle in your chastisement. > >> I don't know what is causing this. I'm beginning to see it all the >> time, and it drives me *nuts*. > > Yes. Exposure to poor grammar degrades my grammar, and that annoys me. > "You understand what I meant, so where's the harm?" has an appropriate > response: "It diminishes *my* abilities, and makes *me* look like an > idiot, so it harms ME." >
Yeah. Thanks from me, too. Or to. Or maybe two or tew. Now if only it were "read" and "red." Oh, and you're still a poop head (poop hed?) on the other stuff. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
