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Subject: [Leica] "Even us natives don't write English good"
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Sun May 9 17:28:45 2004
References: <BCC4198A.BB4B%mark@rabinergroup.com>

Is English the only language where you can have feet that smell and a 
nose that runs?

Jim - http://www.hemenway.com


Mark Rabiner wrote:

>>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)
>>
>>
> 
> I had an English teacher drill into our heads comma splices for a whole
> semester and I can spot them a mile away. All the great writers do it. Last
> night I was reading Dorothy Parker and she has one on every page. Otherwise
> I'm a grammer flunker.
> 
> 
> Mark Rabiner
> Photography
> Portland Oregon
> 
> 
> 
> New-improved
> http://rabinergroup.com/



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