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Message from discussion The greengrocer's apostrophe has reached Berlin.
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 More options Sep 18 2006, 11:40 am
Newsgroups: alt.english.usage, alt.religion.kibology, alt.usage.german
From: a...@TheWorld.com (plorkwort)
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 15:40:23 +0000 (UTC)
Local: Mon, Sep 18 2006 11:40 am
Subject: Re: The greengrocer's apostrophe has reached Berlin.
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In article <eem875$5g...@online.de>,
Rejnold Byzio  <rby...@netscape.net> wrote:

>>"UC" <uraniumcommit...@yahoo.com>:
> Adam Funk wrote:
>>> other bathroom fittings, including "BIDET's".  Everything
>>> on the sign except that s was in upper-case.
>> On to Vienna, then Moscow!
>That's rather "First we take Berlin, then we take Manhattan".

They sentenced me to twenty pages of backspace
For trying to change typography from within
I'm coming now, I'm coming to proofread them
First we take an em-dash, then take a hyphen

I'm guided by a stet on the galley
I'm guided by a caret in the margin
I won't stop even when I see three hashes
First an exclamation, then we take a question

I thank you for those page proofs that you sent me
Apostrophe, plywood parenthesis
I edit every night and now I'm ready
First we take italics, then an emphasis

plorkwort.
--
A girl and a boy bump into each other -- surely an accident.
A girl and a boy bump and her handkerchief drops -- surely another accident.
But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid -- *that had to mean something*.
                -- S. Morganstern, "The Silent Gondoliers"


 
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