[Artemisia] Picking linguistic nits OP

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Which couple peculiarities did you have in mind to forgive??? I have sooooo many... ;-)


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From: Stephanae Baker 

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Subject: [Artemisia] Picking linguistic nits OP





Of course, the third person neutral pronoun with "teacher" as a    referent is highly questionable usage in English, anyway. That's    almost as odd as triple spaces between sentences in the computer age.    I usually find searching out double spaces when I prepare documents    for press sufficiently aggravating. But because Padruig was correct    about populous and populace, perhaps I'll forgive him a couple of    peculiarities.    Do you think a nurse's wanted might be something akin to the FBI's    most wanted? What do you think nurses want? My imagination is running    wild. It's almost as good as last week when I was editing a letter in    which the writer mentioned that the CIO had recently merged with the    company. That was pure science fiction for me. But then, my mind does    have to find a way to entertain itself in my line of work.    Belladonna      On Aug 29, 2007, at 7:40 PM, Elaine wrote:    > Greetings, everyone:  > Lord Padruig said:  > "Subject: [Artemisia] just picking nits, ignore if you aren't picky"  >  > Oh, but I am. Technical writer and all that. Then he makes a valid    > point  > regarding "populous" vs. "populace,"  >  > and goes on to say:  > "Sorry, just the teacher in me rearing it's ugly head"  >  > The technical writer in me wants to say that there's no apostrophe in  > possessive "its." "It's" is the contraction for "it is."  >  > Cheers  > Caryn  > who saw a bus stop sign today that said "Nurse's wanted" :-P    _______________________________________________  Artemisia mailing list  Artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org  http://lists.gallowglass.org/mailman/listinfo/artemisia  


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