Glenn Miller wrote: > On 27 Mar 2002, Garth Wallace was seen to have posted this wee note into > netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news, to which I have responded as follows: > > >>>LOL - there is NO difference - it's merely a written convention that >>>has absolutely no reflection in Spoken English - the English that >>>Matters! >> >>Sow iff ai spel thingz laik thihs it duzzunt matr? Kuuhl! Aftur awl, >>aul speleng iz dzhust uh ritun konvenshan. > > > I wasn't commenting on spelling - but rather was commenting on the > artificial insertion of an apostrophe in a word which has for long been > pronounced "its" regardless of where the apostrophe was placed. > > > Glenn Miller >
It's not an "artificial insertion of an apostrophe in a word," it is the representation of the missing letters in the contraction of "it is."
