On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 19:57:04 -0600, Ron Hunter
wrote:

tony cooper wrote:
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:55:21 -0600, Ron Hunter
wrote:

jaf wrote:
Hence the proliferation of spell checkers.
Now if I could only get the grandma checker to kick in. 8)


John


"Twibil" wrote in message ...
On Feb 20, 10:44 am, "jaf" wrote:
So your stating that the democratic controlled congress during the Bush administration never passed an intelligent bill?

I have no problem believing that!
And we have no problem believing that you never learned in grade
school what the contraction "you're" means (it means "you are") as
opposed to "your", meaning "belonging to you".

BTW: while you're looking things up, check out procedural stalling
tactics and Presidential veto powers.
There are so many people who don't understand the difference between
"your" and "you're" that I have just about given up on it, except for
trying to teach it to my students... One of the errors that seems to be
more frequent than it used to be is "then" and "than" being misused, as
well as "do" and "due". It seems that modern writers, even those with
college degrees subscribe to the theory that if it sounds the same,
what's the difference? Sigh.

You teach? Not English, I hope. The above paragraph is full of
punctuation errors. You need to brush up on the use of commas.


I usually use too many commas. Did you find it hard to understand?
Comma rules are a bit 'fuzzy', and greatly different than they were 55
years or so, when I learned English.

It's not the number; it's the placement. I would not normally point
something like this out in this newsgroup, but you did open the door
with your comments about usage.

Personally, I attribute the incorrect usage of "you're" and "your" to
be a result of fingers flying on autopilot. The writer probably knows
the difference, but an errant twitch of the finger sticks the
apostrophe in there. The one that bugs me is "loose" and "looser" for
"lose" and "loser". I don't think those writers know the difference.




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Tony Cooper - Orlando, Florida