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Subject:Re: Grammatical foot in big mouth From:DHICKEY -at- ALIS -dot- COM Date:Mon, 26 Jul 1999 15:45:37 -0400
Greetings!
> I consider myself officially shamed, and shall wear the dunce cap for
> the remainder of today's show. (Please tell me all of my
> apostrophes are in the right place in this missive!)
The apostrophes seem to be in order, but your dunce cap is committing all
sorts of documentation faux pas:
* the font selection is wrong (it should be arial rather than helvetica)
* the letters are too close together
* it is angling dangerously towards the passive voice
* there are not enough spaces after the period (two rather than one)
* the implied grammatical structure would be enough to make Strunk throttle
White
Please correct these oversights before resubmitting this to the list.
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Be seeing you,
Dave
(drinking too much Coke)
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John David Hickey
Montreal, Quebec, Canada eh?
No trees were harmed in the writing of this email.
My emails are made from elephant tusks and dolphin meat.
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Don't confuse my opinion with my employer's.
Each exists in blissful ignorance of the other.
