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Re: Was Lee Harvey Oswald as obsessed with JFK as Orange Blossom Special is with Barack Obama? |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jun 30 02:51:13 2008, in response to Re: Was Lee Harvey Oswald as obsessed with JFK as Orange Blossom Special is with Barack Obama?, posted by Greg_UWS on Mon Jun 30 02:38:54 2008. Nonsense. I have no "cause" in this thread but merely a hope that those who use their own mother tongue in a public forum can and will respect the most basic tenets of their language, the correct use of the apostrophe being such a tenet and one mastered in the earliest years of one's primary educationBad copout. You played "spelling cop" and got upbraided for it. Let it go. Furthermore, the "rules" of "Netiquette," unlike the basic grammar of one's own language, are not systematically or universally agreed on. They vary from board to board and from place to place Not true! They have a very universal application. Trolls like flouting them, though. finally, the addition of the French circumflex accent on an otherwise perfectly legitimate English word betrays a tendency to priggish pedantry that most assuredly undermines any case you would hope to make here or anywhere else The circumflex is not exclusively French. I've been speaking English my whole life (except as a baby; that would be miraculous). The circumflex has appeared in English texts, especially with the word "role" in it. The so-called "umlaut" (diaresis in Greek) also appears in English texts (such as the still-commonplace spelling of reëlect, for example). Nothing undermines me; this is mere wishful thinking on your part, not to mention whining. Damn. I should have been a lawyer Too many of 'em. Some of them are thoroughly honest, though, and not exclusively focused on money. That's a blessing, to find such a one. |
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