Author: Chris Whittington
Date: 15:32:02 07/03/00
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On July 03, 2000 at 18:15:01, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On July 03, 2000 at 17:57:43, Chris Whittington wrote: > >>Imagining all great men are English is a data failure. Or it could just be good >>for you (if you're English, your English). >> >>Mixing "your" and "you're" is a processing failure. >> >>Fortunately, flakey memory is less important than flakey process. You can cure >>one with an encylopedia. You need an education to cure the other. >> >>Touche. Or not. We are all flawed humans. Youd [sic] be better getting me on its >>and it's - I'm very flakey on those. Or you could try ridiculous and rediculous >>- good and famous on this ng (it was a good 'fake-alike' detector before the >>perpetrator realised). Seperate and separate - also. >> >> >>Chris Whittington > >I never confuse "you're" with "your" or "it's" with "its". It happened because I >changed my mind about the sentence in question and typed too fast, which is an >internet hazard I believe. But if you're convinced that your estimation of my >apparent mistake is correct, don't change it on my behalf. Good excuses are, as >they say, easy to come by. > >Best wishes... >Mogens Fine, no problem. I don't have a clue who said the phrase in question. Actually I have my doubts that it was Voltaire. There's no reference to it in "Coconuts" that I can remember. But probably Gomboc is right - no reason why he would invent it. Chris Whittington
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