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MacOS 8: where's the love?
Yea, thanks language police for derailing this thread into an English class (I'm sure we care)
You're welcome.
As Dr. Zappa once said "The crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe"
BTW, I use OS 8.1 quite regularly. I find it a very nice bridge between the old System 6 and System 7 Macs and the Jaguar and Tiger Macs on my network.
BTW, I use OS 8.1 quite regularly. I find it a very nice bridge between the old System 6 and System 7 Macs and the Jaguar and Tiger Macs on my network.
On topic (which?): Bravo! beachycove. OS 8.6 is the making of a (NuBus) PB 1400. Its 64-MB RAM ceiling does not make use of OS 9.1 useful—not least because a 1400 has to be cozened into accepting the installation—but (especially with a Sonnet G3/400 under the hood) a 1400 with 8.6 is much more the Kaped Krusader than it is with a 603e.
On the off-topic: There is, supposedly, some reason to believe that the use of 's to denote genitive/possessive in the essentially undeclned and analytical modern English language—as opposed to any of its declined forefathers—stems from first the spoken and then the written elision of 'hi' from 'his', as in 'Lord Willoughby his March' = 'Lord Willoughby's March'. True or not, it gives a useful mnemonic to the generations who have been betrayed by the society (and its ideologues) that has failed to teach English as a language to its most needful members: children. No-one in 's right mind would have planned a language that forms both plurals and possessives with an appended 's', so some system of distinguishing them 's needed.
The next homily will be on elision.
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On the off-topic: There is, supposedly, some reason to believe that the use of 's to denote genitive/possessive in the essentially undeclned and analytical modern English language—as opposed to any of its declined forefathers—stems from first the spoken and then the written elision of 'hi' from 'his', as in 'Lord Willoughby his March' = 'Lord Willoughby's March'. True or not, it gives a useful mnemonic to the generations who have been betrayed by the society (and its ideologues) that has failed to teach English as a language to its most needful members: children. No-one in 's right mind would have planned a language that forms both plurals and possessives with an appended 's', so some system of distinguishing them 's needed.
The next homily will be on elision.
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Vry shrt thn?
N't qu'te. R'th'r c'nd'ns'd th'n sh'rt. I disavowel 'ny n'ti'n t' th' c'ntr'ry.
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