Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Rod Pemberton" Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: The Technocrats Control Our Food Supply Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 04:21:27 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <96915e67-8420-4227-b275-598ac4b6ef49@googlegroups.com> <45070958-2ba3-4a41-8b84-8eb501fb088a@googlegroups.com> <73db4db2-a7d8-43eb-aafd-2cc2bca10c31@googlegroups.com> <56f7a8ee-33c8-430a-86b6-3403cdc0ff93@googlegroups.com> <21c3228e-b010-4b78-a72e-3e62df5ff7c4@googlegroups.com> <7ea407de-bae9-4ba5-b6d5-6c977023d827@googlegroups.com> <60501588-a206-454f-bff0-af73e7553190@googlegroups.com> <8661402b-0b29-48d3-bdc0-adbe526ca917@googlegroups.com> <16WdneHHppiqPXvJnZ2dnUU7-WmdnZ2d@supernews.com> <4ab292e2-9ce4-47ee-8ef5-fe962006ff79@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: n4wpt9zq8xR26Ttf9mo2BA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:36711 On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 01:29:14 -0500, Michael Barry wrote: > On Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 9:53:59 PM UTC-8, Rod Pemberton wrote: >> On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 21:47:19 -0500, Elizabeth D. Rather >> > Regarding apostrophes, the most common misuse is in "it's" as a >> > possessive pronoun, as in your paragraph above. >> >> I know why that one was wrong: editing. I can't explain "comma's". >> >> ;-) > > I have been told that my punctuation, spelling and grammar are pretty > good. My problems usually involve the over-use of commas and ellipses > ... and the use of sentence fragments and "ghetto-jargon" in casual > conversation. > > The most common uses of "'s" are to indicate contraction (he is == he's) > and possession (Fred's truck). Elizabeth is correct ... "'s" doesn't > belong in a plural noun or a possessive pronoun. > > Answering an earlier post ... the plural of "this" is "these", and the > plural of "that" is "those". They can all be used as adjectives or > nouns, and simply indicate the proximity of the object in relation > to the person referring to it. Hey, I'm curious about something. How does a guy who said he has "worked in small automotive shops for the last 30 years" end up on Usenet of all places? Not only are you on Usenet but you're in comp.lang.forth. I've known a few cars guys in my life and I seriously doubt that any of them would ever be found in a computer or programming group. AIR, they shunned computers, IRL. Of course, cars today are computer controlled. Rod Pemberton