On Jan 8, 2008, at 8:36 PM, Jinx wrote:

> As I said, I can live with 's, but C/D,s really is above and beyond
> the call of duty for a grammar mangler. You'd love to ask whoever
> made those signs, and the person who approved them, "Show me
> ONE other person in the whole world who writes C/D,s. And
> why didn't you write D/V/D,s ?"


I guess I missed that part of the thread.  I thought we were just  
talking about the apostrophe usage.  I agree, the / is silly.


> It is interesting seeing them change. Ignorance of the past though,
> for example things that used to be general knowledge, is a little
> disappointing. A couple of months ago a senior policy-maker for
> the NZ education ministry said that "facts don't need to be taught
> anymore. That's what the Internet is for". Eeeeuuuw


Yikes.

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Nate Duehr
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