Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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/