Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!decwrl!decvax!ittvax!wxlvax!rlw From: rlw@wxlvax.UUCP (Richard L. Wexelblat) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Chris"s Major Conniption Message-ID: <354@wxlvax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 08:35:39 EDT Article-I.D.: wxlvax.354 Posted: Wed Oct 24 08:35:39 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 26-Oct-84 03:32:45 EDT References:<349@wxlvax.UUCP> loral.563 Lines: 30 >In article <349@wxlvax.UUCP> rlw@wxlvax.UUCP (Richard L. Wexelblat) writes: >> >>Ken Purlow says: >> And "IC's" is OK, too. >>Won't someone do something about such terrible grammatical lapses? >>It obviously should be: >> And "IC's" are OK, too. >>--Dick Wexelblat > >That depends on whether the writer was saying the integrated circuits >ARE ok, or that the *construction* "IC's" is ok. > >The presence of the quotes suggests the latter, in which case Ken Perlow >is correct with the singular verb. > OK, that's two people who have taken my little :-) seriously. I guess I should have put in the side-smile. It was meant to be a pun, a paraphrase of Walt Kelly's "Do you herd sheep?" Old Grandpa said. Old Grandma jumped with fright. "Your grammar's awful wrong," said she, "Have you heard sheep?" is right. "If you think you came into being for the purpose of taking an important part in the administration of events, to guard a province of the moral creation from ruin, and that its salvation hangs on the success of your single arm, you have wholly mistaken your business." (Emerson) --Dick Wexelblat (...decvax!ittvax!wxlvax!rlw) (P.S. Apologies to ken pErlow for misspelling his name.)