From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28832 invoked by alias); 13 Jun 2005 16:21:59 -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 28357 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Jun 2005 16:21:31 -0000 Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 16:21:31 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DhraG-00081G-7C for cygwin-talk@cygwin.com; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:14:44 +0200 Received: from 81.171.158.114 ([81.171.158.114]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:14:44 +0200 Received: from lionelbuk by 81.171.158.114 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 18:14:44 +0200 To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com From: "Lionel B" Subject: Re: My Spacebar is OK! Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:06:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <20050613153423.GB15718@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-q2/txt/msg00414.txt.bz2 Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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. Till it runs it's course.