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----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'How to use Revolution'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Improvements to Revolution'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 10:42 PM Subject: [OT] Spelling > Sorry, everyone, but after seeing multiple posts by people (not only on this > list, but elsewhere as well) where certain words are consistently > misspelled, I felt that it was time to make a quick post about those words > in the hope that it would help us all communicate better in the future. > > ------ > "loose" is the opposite of "tight", as in: > "This bolt is loose." > > "lose" is the opposite of "win" or "gain", as in: > "I didn't mean to lose your phone number." > ------ > "your" means "belonging to you" > > "you're" means "you are" > ------ > "it's" means "it is" > > "its" means "belonging to it" > ------ > An apostrophe usually implies possession (or is used in a contraction), > and is not used for making a singular into a plural, so: > > "television's" = belonging to a television > > "televisions" = more than one television > ------ > > And note that these things are not confined to programming; one quick drive > through my town where I see signs that say: "Hold your partys here" (for a > karaoke bar), or "We use all cloth shammy's" (for a car wash) has urged me > to make this post. Sorry for being a bit pedantic, and I hope no one takes > offense. > > Thanks, > > Ken Ray > Sons of Thunder Software > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
