[Leica] "Even us natives don't write English good"

[Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)]

I think just as common is the use of "your" when "you're" is correct.

Jim - http://www.hemenway.com



Jeffery Smith wrote:
> Ironically, most of the folks who use "it's vs. its" and "compliment vs.
> complement" incorrectly seem to be English as a first language folks. I
> suspect that the biologists are less prone to make the latter error.
> 
> I blame it on the person who came up with the word "complement". He/she
> should have used a less confusing word.
> 
> How about loath vs. loathe? By the way, when you say something like "B&W
> photography is his forte", it is pronounced "fort" rather than "forte'"
> (which is a term in music). That is misused so often, I'm loath (or is
> it loathe?) to even *use* the term when speaking. This is one that will
> probably eventually officially be changed to the *wrong* pronunciation
> simply so Americans don't look so dumb mispronouncing it all of the
> time..
> 
> Jeffery Smith (the grammar police, who knows better than to mention it
> out of context)
> New Orleans, LA
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Oliver
> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 8:47 AM
> To: Users Group Leica
> Subject: [Leica] "Even us natives don't write English good"
> 
> Buzz wrote:
> <snip>
> I add my applause for all the non-native speakers who join the LUG
> dialogue in English.  I only wish a couple of us native English speakers
> made even the smallest effort at writing clearly.
> 
> Buzz Hausner"
> 
> I hope that there will be more than a couple. May I suggest "Eats,
> Shoots
> and Leaves" by Lynne Truss, subtitled "a zero tolerance approach to
> punctuation". The book is a most entertaining discourse on misplaced
> apostrophes (as in "its" vs. "it's") and other ways of mangling the
> English
> language.
> Oliver Bryk (English was not my first language)
>