Internet virus [was:Re: a grammar tangent (was Re: HTML, etc,)]

[Frederick W. Schueler]

Doug Yanega wrote:

> Mike makes what
> may be THE most common new English grammatical error

> an associated question. In one spot Mike writes:
>
> >'Festuca of North America' database, and it's accompanying paper:
>
> "It's" is a contraction of "it is", as in the first case...

* Actually, this isn't a question of grammar. Experienced e-mail users
all know that there is a virus in every e-mail keyboard that rings
changes on its/it's and they're/their/there without any volitional intent
by the operator. Even when the operator is horrified by these errors in
the e-messages of others, his keyboard continues to insert them in his
own output....

fred schueler.
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