Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Gene Wirchenko Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: OT language stuff (was Re: Class.forName().newInstance() vs new) Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:22:19 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <969kqsFjduU5@mid.individual.net> <96ce18Fc6lU3@mid.individual.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7Qrvczazr82YckO5XW8Vtw"; logging-data="18191"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/Jj73XiJqzTh8JSLViknHrB2PTpyCwK4c=" X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 Cancel-Lock: sha1:O+fiSUB2TMxCq0PATi1DQcEWCvQ= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5486 On 21 Jun 2011 20:42:16 GMT, blmblm@myrealbox.com wrote: >In article , >Martin Gregorie wrote: [snip] >> I'm with Arved here: quite a lot of mistakes would appear to indicate the >> author is an almost illiterate person who listens more than he reads, e.g >> writing 'your' instead of 'you're'. A lot of the more (to me) irritating >> habits are probably the result of not realising that spoken idiom differs >> from written, e.g. using 'of' in place of 'with' - this seems to be a >> North American habit. > >Say what .... Can you give an example of that ('of' instead of >'with')? Perhaps, it is that you should of [sic] realised that he meant using "of" instead of "have"? Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko