Bug in mailing lists; unfriendly to non-subscribers

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Jul 6 15:32:42 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 11:21 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > By the way.  Loose - the opposite of tight.  Lose - the opposite of
> win.
> > I'm so sick of people getting that wrong.  That's a third year
> primary
> > school language mistake.
> > 
> And a fact which doesn't impact the final outcome of something is
> moot, not mute. Everyone has their favorite misuse to annoy them.

<OT>
your/you're, its/it's, chose/choose
plus those who think that i is an English word
or that any statement can be made into a question by adding a ?
or that a syntactically correct question doesn't require a ? at the end
</OT>

poc



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