[GEM Development] Wanted: GST Publisher [WAS: (no subject)]
Thomas Clayton
topcatdrc at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 5 18:17:57 PDT 2006
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 <owen at owenrudge.net> wrote:
> > Well, should such grammar ever appear to be in short supply, be
> sure to
> > prod
> > me and I'll wheel out one of my usual overly-long, semicolon-
> (not to
> > mention parenthetical comment-)infested sentences; they're
> always good for
> > a
> > laugh or two, especially when I read back to edit my post
> slightly and
> > can't
> > quite remember what my point was to start with. Bah.
>
> 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
> http://www.owenrudge.net/
>
>
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