"Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" <tributyltinpaint@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:47ABB454.A24FD958@yahoo.co.uk...
<...>
>> Bill to the grammatical rescue. And thank goodness.
>>
> It's part of a test I'm doing to see if repeatedly pointing out the
> correct use of "its" and "it's" will change the world and get folks to
> use "it's" and "it's" right. We'll see.
Funny as hell coming from someone who can't properly conjugate "is."
"Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" <tributyltinpaint@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in
news:47ABB454.A24FD958@yahoo.co.uk:
> It's part of a test I'm doing to see if repeatedly pointing out the
> correct use of "its" and "it's" will change the world and get folks to
> use "it's" and "it's" right.
Bill, I would suggest that you hurredly declare the latter portion of the
above sentence to be a "sly joke" before the general Usenet public rightly
concludes that you are a zoned-out pedantic dufus.
Clave wrote:
>
> "Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" <tributyltinpaint@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:47ABB454.A24FD958@yahoo.co.uk...
>
> <...>
>
> >> Bill to the grammatical rescue. And thank goodness.
> >>
> > It's part of a test I'm doing to see if repeatedly pointing out the
> > correct use of "its" and "it's" will change the world and get folks to
> > use "it's" and "it's" right. We'll see.
>
> Funny as hell coming from someone who can't properly conjugate "is."
>
Even in English, the copula can confuse the best of us.
--
"In August Rudyard's listlessness called for another series of major and
very unpleasant medical examinations.... He later joked ... 'If this is
what Oscar Wilde went to prison for, he ought to have got the Victoria
Cross.'", Andrew Lycett, "Rudyard Kipling"
Hawkster wrote:
>
> "Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" <tributyltinpaint@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in
> news:47ABB454.A24FD958@yahoo.co.uk:
>
> > It's part of a test I'm doing to see if repeatedly pointing out the
> > correct use of "its" and "it's" will change the world and get folks to
> > use "it's" and "it's" right.
>
> Bill, I would suggest that you hurredly declare the latter portion of the
> above sentence to be a "sly joke" before the general Usenet public rightly
> concludes that you are a zoned-out pedantic dufus.
>
Did I write "it's" twice? I meant "its" and "it's". Sorry for that.
> > We'll see.
>
> Trust me, we've all seen enough already.
>
With your eagle augen getting the best of the rest of us, Herr Hawk.
--
"In August Rudyard's listlessness called for another series of major and
very unpleasant medical examinations.... He later joked ... 'If this is
what Oscar Wilde went to prison for, he ought to have got the Victoria
Cross.'", Andrew Lycett, "Rudyard Kipling"
"Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" <tributyltinpaint@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:47ABFB5A.D38F9219@yahoo.co.uk...
>
>
> Hawkster wrote:
>>
>> "Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" <tributyltinpaint@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in
>> news:47ABB454.A24FD958@yahoo.co.uk:
>>
>> > It's part of a test I'm doing to see if repeatedly pointing out the
>> > correct use of "its" and "it's" will change the world and get folks to
>> > use "it's" and "it's" right.
>>
>> Bill, I would suggest that you hurredly declare the latter portion of the
>> above sentence to be a "sly joke" before the general Usenet public
>> rightly
>> concludes that you are a zoned-out pedantic dufus.
>>
> Did I write "it's" twice? I meant "its" and "it's". Sorry for that.
"Hawkster" <mr.hawk@NOSPAMuymail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9A3E98A72A0BiteMeLoser@SayWhat.org...
| "Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" <tributyltinpaint@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in
| news:47ABB454.A24FD958@yahoo.co.uk:
|
| > It's part of a test I'm doing to see if repeatedly pointing out the
| > correct use of "its" and "it's" will change the world and get folks to
| > use "it's" and "it's" right.
|
|
| Bill, I would suggest that you hurredly declare the latter portion of the
| above sentence to be a "sly joke" before the general Usenet public rightly
| concludes that you are a zoned-out pedantic dufus.
|
|
We've already concluded that and much worse regarding Bondage.
