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From: Androcles on 22 Feb 2010 22:24 "R H Draney" <dadoctah(a)spamcop.net> wrote in message news:hlvg8b02b4(a)drn.newsguy.com... > Michael Stemper filted: >> >>mine, yours, his, hers, its,ours, theirs. >> >>Not one possessive pronoun has an apostrophe. > > That might just be somebody's opinion....r > > Pigs might fly; but then they'd be pigeons.
From: Brian M. Scott on 22 Feb 2010 22:55 On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:37:43 +0800, Robert Bannister <robban1(a)bigpond.com> wrote in <news:7ugpr7Fll6U1(a)mid.individual.net> in sci.math,sci.physics,sci.astro,sci.lang,alt.usage.english: > Brian M. Scott wrote: >> R H Draney wrote: >> [...] >>> If you want a crank, find the person who came up with >>> Daylight Saving Time.... >>> Then find his successor who decided that DST should apply >>> for more of the year than "Standard" time....r >> I like DST; my only objection is that we don't have it all >> year round. > I think you should go and live in Inverness until you > change your mind. I can't imagine why you think that I'd change my mind. As far as I'm concerned, DST has no disadvantages at any time of year in any climate at any latitude. In winter at higher latitudes its advantages are minimal, but it still has no disadvantages. I couldn't care less how dark it is in the morning; it's in the afternoon and evening that I want the benefit of as much daylight as possible. Brian
From: spudnik on 22 Feb 2010 23:06 of course, "Brian's trolling" is an apostrophization of "Brian, *his* trolling;" did you think that it was "Brian is trolling, again," and again? --les OEuvres! http://wlym.com
From: Peter T. Daniels on 22 Feb 2010 23:27 On Feb 22, 7:49 pm, Andrew Usher <k_over_hb...(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > Peter T. Daniels wrote: > > > The Catholic Church has stated, I believe more than once (it's linked > > > to somewhere in this thread) that fixing Easter to a particular week > > > would be acceptable. > > > "The Catholic Church" (which refers to no specific organization) > > hasn't spoken for all of Christendom for nearly half a millennium. > > 'The Catholic Church' or simply 'The Church' refers to exactly one > organisation. It's disingenuous to pretend otherwise. Also, it's been > longer than half a millennium if one includes the East. One doesn't "include the East." One has to wonder what knowledge you have of the Eastern churches. Are you by any chance one of those crackpots who want the Mass peformed in Latin, who think Jesus decreed that clergy be celibate, and the congeries of heterodox beliefs that go along with those two? > > (It > > took almost 200 years to get their newfangled calendar accepted just > > throughout Western Europe, and it took the Russian Revolution to get > > it used across the East.) > > Nowadays, though, globalisation would be much faster.
From: Peter T. Daniels on 22 Feb 2010 23:32
On Feb 22, 10:55 pm, "Brian M. Scott" <b.sc...(a)csuohio.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:37:43 +0800, Robert Bannister > <robb...(a)bigpond.com> wrote in > <news:7ugpr7Fll6U1(a)mid.individual.net> in > sci.math,sci.physics,sci.astro,sci.lang,alt.usage.english: > > > Brian M. Scott wrote: > >> R H Draney wrote: > >> [...] > >>> If you want a crank, find the person who came up with > >>> Daylight Saving Time.... > >>> Then find his successor who decided that DST should apply > >>> for more of the year than "Standard" time....r > >> I like DST; my only objection is that we don't have it all > >> year round. > > I think you should go and live in Inverness until you > > change your mind. > > I can't imagine why you think that I'd change my mind. As > far as I'm concerned, DST has no disadvantages at any time > of year in any climate at any latitude. In winter at higher > latitudes its advantages are minimal, but it still has no > disadvantages. I couldn't care less how dark it is in the > morning; it's in the afternoon and evening that I want the > benefit of as much daylight as possible. The point is that the kiddies shouldn't go off to school in the dark. |