RE: [PHP] OT A public apology to Larry Garfield
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:57:06 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] OT A public apology to Larry Garfield | ||
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On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 18:42 +0100, Ford, Mike wrote:
> On 07 August 2007 16:15, Daniel Brown wrote:
>
> > On 8/7/07, tedd <tedd@sperling.com> wrote:
> > > Hi gang:
> > There should be a comma prior to the addressee(s).
> >
> > >
> > > In the long winded debate over copyright infringement vs thievery, I
> > > made an unkind and untrue inference re Larry Garfield.
> > You forgot to hyphenate "long-winded"; "Copyright" is a title and
> > should thus be capitalized; "vs" is not a word, but rather an
> > abbreviation of the word "versus", and as such it should be marked as
> > "vs.";
>
> I contest that contention! An abbreviation including the final letter
> of the original word doesn't need the full stop, and so vs is correct
> (or so I was taught). (The Oxford English Dictionary apparently
> agrees -- see
What Mike really means to say is the following:
I ct tt cn! An an ig te fl lr of te ol wd ds nt nd te fl sp,
ad so vs is ct (or so I ws tt). (Te Od Eh Dy ay as -- se...)
Cheers,
Rob
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