[Artemisia] Picking linguistic nits OP

[Stephanae Baker]

That would be the couple I mentioned: calling a teacher an "it" and  
triple-spacing between sentences. I can forgive many more, though! Of  
course, I have none. ;-)



On Aug 30, 2007, at 12:03 PM, rayzentz at aim.com wrote:

> Which couple peculiarities did you have in mind to forgive??? I  
> have sooooo many... ;-)
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> Subject: [Artemisia] Picking linguistic nits OP
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> 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     
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