On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 07:54:16AM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Guy Gold <g...@merl.com> [05-11-14 07:38]: > > On Sat,May 10 06:49:PM, Derek Martin wrote: > > > Mostly I reply here due to a curiosity: Why is "'messed'" in single > > > quotes here? I see people do this increasingly often, and I don't get > > > why. > > > > Are you implying that the single quotes should have been > > escaped then ? ;) > > Iiuc, the "comment" pertains to the "comment" rather than the "syntax of > send hook", ie: correct usage of the English "written" word.
I believe he understood that and was making a joke, i.e. in English should the single quotes be escaped then. At least I laughed. :) More worrying are the strange ammendments that American English is imposing (or has imposed) on us people who speak the proper English! -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X
