The Achilles' heel of Bowmann

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24 Oct 05 23:35

Suzianne

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25 Oct 05 16:00

Originally posted by angie88
lol no offense, I was just playing with words. There are some people though who rec bowmann's posts... I figured you might want some of that 😉

Oh, I see where you're coming from... Hehe... no, I'm not interested in that. I just wanted to yank Mr. Bowmann's prehensile tail, since I know for a bloody fact he's dead wrong this time.

Sigh... I know he'll just wriggle his way out of this one, too... 😞

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25 Oct 05 16:01

Bowmann is quite wrong on this issue. The use of an apostrophe to denote the pluralisation of an abbreviation is incorrect. "Typo" (denoting Typographical Error) does not need an apostrophe when pluralised in the same way as Cafes (short for Cafeterias) does not. We should not use CD's or MOT's either.

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25 Oct 05 16:02

Originally posted by Bowmann
That'll be American TV again, teaching you all you need to know about "modern" England 😵

Please.

Do yourself a favor and look up realm in the dictionary. Any dictionary will do.

Or are you still afraid of being taken to school?

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25 Oct 05 16:03

Originally posted by PocketKings
The honest truth is that you English had our country and we beat your ass to take it back...I like all the other English people here.

Don't expect to make many friends among them now.

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25 Oct 05 16:05

Originally posted by Bowmann
Just whore'll do 😉

And did you really mean to type the indefinite article...? 😉😉

You disappoint me, Mr. Bowmann...

And yes, of course I meant to use the indefinite article "a"...

For someone who espouses himself the messiah of literature and language, I'm suprised you don't recognize the precise "Americanism" I used in that post...

For shame...

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25 Oct 05 16:06

Originally posted by Bowmann
I'm not a cockney. You have the ignorance of an American.

You spelled "arrogance" wrong .

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25 Oct 05 16:06

Originally posted by Starrman
Bowmann is quite wrong on this issue. The use of an apostrophe to denote the pluralisation of an abbreviation is incorrect. "Typo" (denoting Typographical Error) does not need an apostrophe when pluralised in the same way as Cafes (short for Cafeterias) does not. We should not use CD's or MOT's either.

Yet another who doesn't understand my earlier choice of words.

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25 Oct 05 16:07

Originally posted by PocketKings
The honest truth is that you English had our country and we beat your ass to take it back.

Actually you're only half right. When the British lost the war, they lost the country for the first time. So we won the land for the first time, we didn't take it back.

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25 Oct 05 16:07

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Originally posted by Moldy Crow
You spelled "arrogance" wrong .

There are so many words; one has to discipline oneself... 😉

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25 Oct 05 16:08

Originally posted by Bowmann
Don't expect to make many friends among them now.

Why not? Half of them even think you're a twit.

It's ok, I just think you're an ass... at least you act like one.

widget

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25 Oct 05 16:10

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Drivel, drivel, drivel, drivel........

Originally posted by Bowmann
I'm not a cockney. You have the ignorance of an American.

Originally posted by Moldy Crow
You spelled "arrogance" wrong .

You're forgetting - or maybe just emulating? - your own american presidential Mr.B? I'm shocked 😲

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25 Oct 05 16:11

Originally posted by Suzianne
Why not? Half of [b]them even think you're a twit.

It's ok, I just think you're an ass... at least you act like one.[/b]

Twit maybe. I'd call him a wit but I'd only be half right.

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25 Oct 05 16:13

Originally posted by widget
Originally posted by Bowmann
I'm not a cockney. You have the ignorance of an American.

Originally posted by Moldy Crow
[b]You spelled "arrogance" wrong .

You're forgetting - or maybe just emulating? - your own american presidential Mr.B? I'm shocked 😲[/b]

Dr. Bowmann.....whats going on here, on this thread????😠

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25 Oct 05 16:14

Originally posted by zakkwylder
Twit maybe. I'd call him a wit but I'd only be half right.

You're not English. But perhaps you have lost the thread.

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25 Oct 05 16:14

Originally posted by Bowmann
Actually, since "typo" is an abbreviation of "typographical error", the apostrophe becomes acceptable.

Ok, there's the quote. Would you be so kind as to explain to us why or how the "apostrophe becomes acceptable", especially in reference to the phrase beginning with "since"?