OT--Re: Help me find 5 mistakes and than solution to thoes mistakes!

[Peter Smith]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Aug 2004, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 2004-08-18 at 11:33, Steven W. Orr wrote:
>>
>>> And a pet peeve of mine is misuse of Latin in general, e.g., the 
>>> biggest
>>> of which are confusing i.e. and e.g., and mispronouncing etc (i.e., et
>>> cetera) as ex cetera.
>>>
>>
>> Hey, Steve! Good to read you again.
>>
>> I thought this thread would die, but since it refuses I'll just *have*
>> to pitch in. Generally spelling and grammar are going downhill fast...
>> English is my second language and I still find that most of the
>> "natives" speak/write/think in simply deplorable fashion. Examples:
>>
>> Misuse of similar words: complimentary/complementary or affect/effect
>> Language destruction: walla! (voilà!) and expresso (espresso)
>
>
> "its" versus "it's".   grrrr .....
>
> rday
>
> !DSPAM:4123a1e445231997517569!

Since this is now a permanent thread :-) can I add that I recently saw 
someone in a fairly intellectual discussion group persistently using 
"mean't".

Sadly, I expect that the posessive pronoun "it's" will soon be accepted 
practice ...

Regards,
Peter Smith