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Subject:Re: The Death of the Apostrophe From:Douglas Holschuh <holschuh -at- IX -dot- NETCOM -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 15 Nov 1995 02:00:00 -0500
McDonald-Kenwort -dot- 5 -at- OSU -dot- EDU wrote:
>Well, the decline of the west is truly dispiriting. No backbone in the
>culture, and now the apostrophe!
Truly! Look at what happened to Latin as Rome declined. (Cicero would've =
had a hard time reading medieval Latin.) I say we fight to save the =
apostrophe---for king and country!:)
Doug
Douglas Holschuh
Editing & Publishing
Athens, Georgia
holschuh -at- ix -dot- netcom -dot- com
