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Subject:Re: Its and It's From:Miark <miark -at- MIJENIX -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 22 Sep 1997 16:44:59 -0500
> At the end of the session, he said, "Well, it makes
> sense the way you explain it, but I'll have to
> check it out."
>
> And he did - with two electrical engineers. They all
> agreed that I was wrong (They cited an example proving
> their point in an engineering mathematical formula
> book, circa 1936), and dismissed me as a modern-day
> grammatic radical.
>
> So you just sigh, and go on, folks... Engineers...
If this isn't the stuff that Dilbert strips are made of, I don't
know what is. :-)
Mike
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