Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet

From	MalcolmO <user@domain.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Getting rid of smart quotes/apostrophes on Usenet
Date	2016-04-11 02:08 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 2016/03/26 7:45 PM, dorayme wrote:
> Perhaps
> we should start working to simplify the other pairs!

Y'know what? English has too many words. Let's cut it back to just 2,000 
words. It would be so much simpler. The only problem would be that some 
people would argue for 1,000. But honestly, life will be much simpler 
once we have no words for numbers larger than twelve.
-- 
Malcolm

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