Parish says: > Patrick Gallagher wrote: > >> Ron Hunter wrote: >> >>> Jay Garcia wrote: >>> >>>> On 17/08/02 01:19, Brian Heinrich Replied As Follows: >>>> >>>> --- Original Message --- >>>> >>>> >>>>> Fair 'nuff, I guess. However, since he bases his argument on >>>>> typewriters >>>>> /v/ computer typography (apparently), and since the convention >>>>> antedates the >>>>> common use of the typewriter and fixed-pitch fonts, I would still >>>>> say that, >>>>> of necessity, he is wrong. But it's not that big a deal. . . . >>>>> >>>>> /b. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Type up an English term paper and double space after a period ending a >>>> sentence ... YOU FAIL !!! Don't argue with my daughter the English >>>> major >>>> !! :-) >>>> >>>> So long as it's "readable" I could care less. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion >>>> Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI >>>> UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org >>>> ** Post To Group ONLY, do NOT email ** >>> >>> >>> >>> Yeah, Jay, but they teach people to spell 'tomatoe' as 'tomato'. >>> Leaving off >>> that 'e' saves ink in newspapers and publishing, but it changes the >>> way the >>> word would be pronounced, and is 'wrong'. I too was an English >>> major, and >>> practices often change, albeit slowly, as some of us just aren't >>> going to go >>> along with such uncivilized practices as putting ending punctuation >>> inside a >>> quotation mark at the end of a quotation that ends a sentence. What >>> goes in >>> the quotation marks is THE QUOTATION, NOT the punctuation for the >>> sentence >>> containing it. Anyone can see what confusion the current practice might >>> cause. >>> >> >> Last I checked, my dictionary says 'tomato', not 'tomatoe'. The e is >> appropriate only in the plural version 'tomatoes'. That was one of the >> things that got former VP of the US (Quayle) ridiculed... telling >> students they forgot the letter e on tomato and potato, when in fact >> there isn't one (anymore?) >> > > Hehe. Wasn't he the one who also claimed to have been involved in > "inventing" the Internet, and proclaimed his website to be "Open Source"?
No, that was Al Gore. His statement was taken out of context also. You can read about the story at http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,39301,00.html. -- Jerry Baker
