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Subject:Re: There must be some kind of standard.... From:Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:03:26 -0800
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:54 PM, <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net> wrote:
> It's a poker game. Call and raise by putting in greengrocer's apostrophes
> for some of the plurals, at random.
>
> ("The information is Stored in the Document's.")
>
> If you win the hand, you may get to chair a study committee that will
> generate new standards. Everyone will ignore them, and the documents will
> still stink, but you'll have standards. Excuse me, *Standard's*.
>
> -Peter Neilson
>
>
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