[OT} Punctuation flamebait - was Re: [plug] Going cheap [OT]

[Lawrie Abbott]

James Devenish wrote:

>In message <1082593096.1045.0.camel at syngery>
>on Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:18:17AM +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
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>>Please never say anything that reminds me of state run education. :)
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>Missing hyphen. Try "state-run" instead. Gah! ;-)
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What is the point of the added punctuation, if you can easily determine 
the intended meaning without it?  Why dont we (at least) do away with 
the apostrophe and rid ourselves of the problems caused by the 
interchangeable use of the single quotation and the apostrophe. :)

--Lawrie Abbott