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I think he is loosing it!

On Jul 30, 2006, at 5:15 PM, sfrules wrote:

>
>  Hello,
>
>  Eye before Eee accept after Sea?
>  Can I get aweigh with weird science?
>
>  I think a little care with spelling is a good
>  idea for the sake of the many on the list for
>  whom English is a second language.
>
>  "thEn" refers to time, not comparisons.
>  "thAn" refers to comparisons.
>
>  Never say or write "different then"
>  Never "different than"
>  Always say or write "different from"
>  Never later "then"
>  Always later than
>
>  "loose" means not too tight
>  "lose" means go away
>
>  "it's" always means "it is"
>  "its" always means "belongs to it"
>
>  "to" means "going toward"
>  "too" means "excessive"
>  "two" is a number
>  "tu" is French for "you"
>  "Thieu" is a Asian name
>  "tutu" is a dress
>  "Tutu" is Desmond's last name
>  "Too Too" is just plain snobby
>
>  Only write, "I won't go too Chicago because its to cold." when you
>  want to mess up the reader's head!!!
>
>  The ONLY ONLY ONLY time you use an apostrophe for more than one is
>  when you are using
>  an acronym like "VCO" EG's VCA's VCF's ADSR's
>  VCO's DMZ's PCP's
>
>  Never write "wire's" unless you are talking about or describing
>  something about a particular wire
>  the plural of tomato is tomatos or tomatoes
>  the plural of potato is potatos or potatoes
>  the plural of squash is squashes
>  the plural of battery is batteries, not battery's, not batterie's
>  the plural of almost everything else is done by adding an "s" WITHOUT
>  AN APOSTROPHE!
>  wires jacks plugs filters amps modules Moogs ZerOscillators rants
>  Hertz (...?)
>
>  ...and for fun you can correct all the PUNCTUATION ERRORS in the
>  above rant...
>
>  sfrules
>
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