On 16/11/2013 17:02, Paul Smith wrote:
On Sat, 2013-11-16 at 10:11 -0500, Roy Smith wrote:
In article <mailman.2714.1384611545.18130.python-l...@python.org>,
William Ray Wing <w...@mac.com> wrote:
And my personal peeve - using it's (contraction) when its (possessive)
should have been used; occasionally vice-versa.
And one of mine is when people write, "Here, here!" to signify
agreement. What they really mean to write is, "Hear, hear!", meaning,
"Listen to what that person said".
The one that really irks me is people using "loose" when they mean
"lose". These words are not related, and they don't sound the same.
Plus this mistake is very common; I typically see it at least once a
day.
Somebody published a link to this poem some months back, I think it's
worth repeating http://www.i18nguy.com/chaos.html
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