On Thu, 5 Sep 1996, Thomas R Jefferys wrote:

Uh, I don't want to sound like a nitpicker, but I really see a misuse of
appostorphies in writing. I admit, we have a f-ed up language, but it's our
language, and we have to deal with it.

	Speaking of nitpicking, it's apostrophies, not appostorphies.  I 
do have to agree with the punctuation problems, though.
	Hey, I'm an English minor.  I have to have a job _somewhere_.

No, it's not. You don't type "it's laugh" for the same reason you don't
type "she's laugh"; you use "its" instead of "it's" because "its" is the
possessive form of "it", just as 'him' and 'her' are used as the possessive
forms of "he" and "she". An "-'s" attached to "he/she/it" means "he/she/it
is", which is worse.

	Boo-yah!!  Reminds me of Senior English in high school.

You _do_ use "-'s" to make a noun possessive, but this is also used for the
contraction of "is", just as with pronouns.

Remember: pronouns don't take apostrophes unless there is a contraction. No
exceptions.

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-wyrm(AKA Tom Jefferys; Time Lord for Hire, "Have TARDIS; Will Travel.")
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	OH MY GOD!!  TOM IS THE _WYRM!!_  And the Wyrm is a _LONGHORN_!?!  
Sorry, bit of Werewolf humor there.  I figured the Wyrn was certain to be 
an Aggie. ^_-

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