From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25347 invoked by alias); 13 Jun 2005 15:34:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List Received: (qmail 25333 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Jun 2005 15:34:24 -0000 Received: from c-66-30-17-189.hsd1.ma.comcast.net (HELO cgf.cx) (66.30.17.189) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 15:34:24 +0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 6332E13C258; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 11:34:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:21:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List Subject: Re: My Spacebar is OK! Message-ID: <20050613153423.GB15718@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: The Cygwin-Talk Malingering List References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00413.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 04:30:12PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >----Original Message---- >>From: Lionel B >>Sent: 13 June 2005 14:48 > >> Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: >>> >>> And don't even get me started >>> about general misuse of quotation marks. :-) >> >> Actually, may I get you started? >> >> In the UK this most common and iniquitous form of punctuation abuse has >> come to be known as "greengrocer's apostrophe": > > Actually, it's known as the "greengrocers apostrophe", just to add a >delightfully ironic twist! Yep. This discussion is proceeding as per tradition. Lets see. Im wondering how long its going to last.