On Monday, September 8, 2014 10:15:44 AM UTC-10, Michel Boucher wrote:
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> > Thanks for clarification. I thought you were some kind of
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> > spelling/style netcop since you brought up the matter of my
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> > inadequate spelling/usage. You best get used to it. :-)
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> I think it's important when people quote something that they make
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> some effort to make sure it is correct. The Internet is there to
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> help you find the correct term. There is no excuse for getting
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> There have been a number of "foreign" recipe names and ingredients
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> here which have been misspelled, all of which makes searching and
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> And I do like punctuation, and I use it, but I don't insist others
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> do unless it creates confusion, as in the famous case of Eats
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> Shoots and Leaves / Eats, Shoots and Leaves. The second has
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> Hint: One is a koala, the other is a gunslinger.
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I have heard of this famous book. The author would undoubtedly be turning in her grave if she saw the things that go on in Usenet. Of course, being still alive puts the kabosh on that occurring.
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> Socialism never took root in America because the
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> poor there see themselves not as an exploited
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> proletariat but as temporarily embarassed
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> millionaires. - John Steinbeck