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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><small>G'day, all!<br>
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1. "Veganalex" -- I presume the changed name means you have changed
your diet?<br>
<br>
2. I imagine that your reference to GBP would place you pretty firmly
in England, Scotland or Wales; were you uncertain whether Thomas was in
the US or Australia, due to his non-specific reference to a $ value?<br>
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3. Thomas: Wikipedia has some interesting comment on and trivia
relating to the book. I always thought the Australian reference better
than the Panda story.<br>
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4. I don't think that texting on mobile phones is particularly helpful
for either spelling or punctuation. I am increasingly receiving e-mails
in textspeak, which I consider lazy when most keyboards are pretty
accessible with all fingers.<br>
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5. All: I think that GST Publisher is pretty much a lost cause, when it
comes to GEM. :-(<br>
<br>
Peter</small><br>
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Thomas Clayton wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Owen,
Its ironic you should mention THAT book! On the POSSI list-serv
(OS/2), there's a wom who is a computer tech'y. writer (Esther
Schindler) who politely gave me the title to that book and
suggested that I read it. I've gotten it home but have scarcely
'cracked the covers' so far.
TomC
--- Owen Rudge <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:owen@owenrudge.net"><owen@owenrudge.net></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Well, should such grammar ever appear to be in short supply, be
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<pre wrap="">sure to
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<pre wrap="">prod
me and I'll wheel out one of my usual overly-long, semicolon-
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<pre wrap="">(not to
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<pre wrap="">mention parenthetical comment-)infested sentences; they're
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<pre wrap="">always good for
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laugh or two, especially when I read back to edit my post
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<pre wrap="">slightly and
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<pre wrap="">can't
quite remember what my point was to start with. Bah.
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<pre wrap="">Funny we should be talking about grammar, I got a hold of "Eats,
Shoots and
Leaves" the other day and was reading it on the nice long flights
back from
San Francisco to Edinburgh yesterday/today. Such sentences and
reasons for
them featured heavily; it's most interesting. Plus, I'm generally
rather a
pedant when it comes to grammar, particularly such things as
apostrophes
(there's a most annoying shop nearby called "Bedding, Bit's and
Bob's" - I
cringe every time I walk past it), so it made for an interesting
read.
--
Owen Rudge
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.owenrudge.net/">http://www.owenrudge.net/</a>
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