Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/09

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Subject: [Leica] "Even us natives don't write English good"
From: oliverbryk at iqmail.net (Oliver)
Date: Sun May 9 06:46:56 2004
 
Buzz wrote:
<snip>
I add my applause for all the non-native speakers who join the LUG
dialogue in English.  I only wish a couple of us native English speakers
made even the smallest effort at writing clearly.

Buzz Hausner"

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)
Replies: Reply from jls at runbox.com (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] "Even us natives don't write English good")
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