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Re: grammar (was Re: Automation)

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Date Tue, 19 Nov 2013 04:13:41 +0000
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On 16/11/2013 17:02, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-11-16 at 10:11 -0500, Roy Smith wrote:
>> In article <mailman.2714.1384611545.18130.python-list@python.org>,
>>   William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>> And my personal peeve -  using it's (contraction) when its (possessive)
>>> should have been used; occasionally vice-versa.
>
>> And one of mine is when people write, "Here, here!" to signify
>> agreement.  What they really mean to write is, "Hear, hear!", meaning,
>> "Listen to what that person said".
>
> The one that really irks me is people using "loose" when they mean
> "lose".  These words are not related, and they don't sound the same.
> Plus this mistake is very common; I typically see it at least once a
> day.
>

Somebody published a link to this poem some months back, I think it's 
worth repeating http://www.i18nguy.com/chaos.html

-- 
Python is the second best programming language in the world.
But the best has yet to be invented.  Christian Tismer

Mark Lawrence

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