[Elecraft] K3 - Come on Simon...

Richard Thorne rmthorne at suddenlink.net
Tue Dec 11 07:42:29 EST 2007


You guys must be board, what in the world does this have to do with 
Elecraft?

I'll just be another unsubscirber added to the list.

73,

Rich - N5ZC

Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy wrote:
> Fred Jensen wrote:
>
>> The apostrophe is an aberration in the English language, "up with 
>> which I wish I did not have to put."  [Apologies to Winston for the 
>> liberty of a misquote].  We use it for so many different things and 
>> meanings that it gets misused often ... or usually.  If it can't be 
>> said with 26 letters and 10 digits, maybe it doesnt need to be said 
>> that way, or maybe we need a new word.
>
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
> Perhaps it's a good thing that use can be made of Upper and Lower case 
> letters to change the meaning of a word if that's the objective, for 
> example a 'bird' is a feathered beastie while a 'Bird' is quite a 
> different entity - but I'll refrain from further comment. Please don't 
> quote me to my English cousins but it's been claimed by English 
> academics that the best English is or was spoken in Scotland, in the 
> region of the Black Isle so named because of the large number of 
> witches who lived there. Their written spells made full use of the 
> apostrophe, so be warned if it's to be thought of as an aberration!
>
> 73,
> Geoff
> GM4ESD
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