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Ummm... Milo. Perhaps you ain't noticed lately, but I ain't Jackie.
Oops.
My most humble apologies, dear Jackie, for thinking that you were Faldage.
Originally Posted By: themilum [/quote
What he wanted to say was that any multiplicity of a same symbol that denotes any of the letters of alphabet should be denoted by the addition of a small letter "s" rather than by an apostrophied "s" in order to clearly indicate that the writer is referring to more than one of the specific letter that he had mentioned.
Oh, it's all clear. allright. Five s's in a word or five i's in a word of five o's. (f.i.)
should according to the article be written as "s"s , "i"s or "o"s.
That makes the text image less clear. Why the double when one is enough?
btw. Why didn't you say so in the first place
(would have saved me a multiplicity of complexicities)
And furthermore, this complicated answer did not get you enough credit to give acces to an honorable place on the heavy hand-hewn wooden chairs.(+ the mixing up of two persons even sets the total score back to the negative))
Last edited by BranShea; 05/10/07 05:03 PM.
I'm with BranShea; I find i's clearer than either Is or is for a plurality of the letter i. Even though it takes a whole extra keystroke.
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