[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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