Re: At the risk of being labeled a grammar nazi...

["nhdennis@xxxxxxxxxxx" <nhdennis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Then why do you keep doing it. 

Norm Dennis 


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From: "Booth Martin" <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: At the risk of being labeled a grammar nazi...
Date: Sat, Sep 7, 2013 12:32


Capitalization is important too.  "Today i helped my uncle jack off the 
horse" can mean a couple of things, depending on capitalization.

However my pet peeve remains those who start with "I don't think ...."  
OK.  Fine.  Your business.  But why admit it?




On 9/6/2013 10:09 PM, PaulMmn wrote:
> But you do NOT need an apostrophe to say things like...
>
> 		SODAS  FOR  SALE
>
> 	"SODAS  for sale" means there is more than one soda for sale.
> 	"SODA'S for sale" means  soda is for sale.   I don't think
> that's what they had in mind!
>
> I've seen it as "soda's for sale" all too often!  People see that
> trailing "S" and assume it needs an apostrophe!
>
>
> --Paul E Musselman
> PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx