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stop to think vs. stop thinking #16 (permalink) Wed May 25, 2011 17:23 pm   stop to think vs. stop thinking
 

Our Tort System wrote:
I'm concerned with the grammar of this famous quote, the "of it's occuring" bit in particular.
Shouldn't the prossessive pronoun "its" be used in this case? Or even just "it?

Hi Dean

You're right that the proper spelling would be without the apostrophe. However, I don't change what I quote. I quote them as I find them. If there happens to be a typo or a grammar error in the quote, I quote it as is.

I don't use any special software for the quotes other than Google. I take a key word or idea from the thread, do a search for quotes containing that word and then just pick one. When I looked for a quote to put into my previous post, I googled for quotes including the word 'affect'. For this post, I googled quotes containing the word 'apostrophe'. :~)

Of course, this slows down the process of posting something in a thread, but I think it's interesting to see what other people have written and said.

I'm happy to know that people are actually reading the things I quote. It makes the time it takes to find them worth the effort. :)

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stop to think vs. stop thinking #17 (permalink) Wed May 25, 2011 17:31 pm   stop to think vs. stop thinking
 

Esl_Expert wrote:
Hi Dean

You're right that the proper spelling would be without the apostrophe. However, I don't change what I quote. I quote them as I find them. If there happens to be a typo or a grammar error in the quote, I quote it as is.

Hi Amy,

Thanks for the heads-up, it's just me being nitpicking so pay no mind, hehe. In a way I was testing my knowledge, whether my guess was on the money or not. Turned out it was after all!
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stop to think vs. stop thinking #18 (permalink) Wed May 25, 2011 17:40 pm   stop to think vs. stop thinking
 

Esl_Expert wrote:
“If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.” - Doug Larson


Wouldn't that make it an apusstrophe?
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stop to think vs. stop thinking #19 (permalink) Wed May 25, 2011 20:18 pm   stop to think vs. stop thinking
 

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stop to think vs. stop thinking #20 (permalink) Mon May 30, 2011 12:49 pm   stop to think vs. stop thinking
 

what does rotfl mean?
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stop to think vs. stop thinking #21 (permalink) Mon May 30, 2011 12:56 pm   stop to think vs. stop thinking
 

ROTFL stands for "rolling on the floor laughting". It's chat lingo.
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